The risk will increase in the heat of summer. In a notice published on June 20, the National Agency for Food, Environment and Work Safety (ANSES) warns of the spread of microalgae, which has already caused nearly 900 poisonings on the Basque coast since 2020.
Ostreopsis has long been considered an algae that grows only in tropical and subtropical areas. “However, since the beginning of the 2000s, it has been observed more and more often in temperate zones, for example, in the Mediterranean Sea.ANSES scientists note. This microscopic alga, first discovered in Villefranche-sur-Mer in France in 1972, has since spread throughout the Mediterranean before settling on the Basque coast of France and Spain for about five years thanks to warming waters. “Slowly it rises, it develops very quickly if the conditions are favorable. once he…
Source: Le Figaro
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