There is no tourist who leaves Paris without first eating one of its popular crepes, a very thin pancake made of flour, milk and eggs, which is usually served rolled and with a sweet or savory filling. However, the city council of the French capital recognizes that some street vendors are carrying out “dangerous sanitary practices” by storing the dough in the sewers, according to local newspaper Le Parisien.
According to this information, the cases have been detected in the stands located in the park that surrounds the emblematic Eiffel Tower. The French police have detected that sellers keep the liquid mixture under the covers of public roads, in sewer holes or in water or electricity manholes.
French authorities assure that not only are the doughs stored there, but these street vendors use these spaces to store other products such as drinks, meat or corn on the cob.
“In each intervention, the police seized and destroyed 30 kg of merchandise. During the week of September 11 to 16, they seized 380 bottles of water, 50 of wine, 200 of beer and 90 ears of corn,” district officials explain to this medium.
According to this newspaper, this unhealthy practice would mainly affect the hundreds of tourists who visit the surroundings of the Eiffel Tower. Therefore, they ask for caution when buying any type of products at these street stalls.
“We must warn potential consumers, often tourists, of the danger of the products on sale, because it is a real public health problem,” assures the deputy mayor of Paris, Nicolas Nordmanque, to Le Parisien.
