Paris is ready to host the Olympic Games 2024 and preparations are in full swing. The French capital will inevitably see a bigger inflow of holiday makers subsequent yr, along with the unceasing throng of vacationers it attracts yearly. In this context, a report by native newspaper Le Parisien final month is especially alarming. It has uncovered the intense lack of meals security practices of native avenue distributors round essentially the most iconic web site within the metropolis: the Eiffel Tower. The space surrounding the tower is crammed with meals carts and stands, most of that are unlawful.
These distributors normally promote objects comparable to sandwiches and crepes. Their goal clients are the vacationers who come to go to this well-known landmark from all over the world. The report features a compilation of video clips taken by native residents. One of them reveals the distributors taking out food and drinks from manholes alongside the Champ-de-Mars close to the Eiffel Tower. The report has revealed that different entry factors to sewers have additionally turn out to be makeshift storage areas for substances like crepe batter and greens. One video reveals cooked meals that the vendor admits to storing within the open air – with out being coated.
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Philippe Goujon, deputy mayor of Paris, informed Le Parisien that these distributors retailer their meals objects in lots of unsanitary locations comparable to manhole hatches, fireplace escapes, constructing exits and even gutters. On viewing the clips, Frank Delvau, president of the Union of Hospitality Trades and Industries of Paris and the Ile-de-France, has identified the intense menace to public well being posed by these distributors. Most of them do not have licences and aren’t ruled by any hygiene norms. He has additionally highlighted the “unfair competition” they current to the extra respectable (and law-abiding) eating places within the space. Given these considerations, he states, “We cannot let such an open-air food market flourish.”
Le Parisien has additionally revealed that the police seized a complete of 10 tonnes of merchandise alongside Champ-de-Mars by the top of the summer season. Out of this, round one-third consists of foodstuffs comparable to “water packs, Nutella, sugar and jam, alcohol, kebab meat and chicken.”

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