diff --git a/ALICE3/TableProducer/alice3strangenessFinder.cxx b/ALICE3/TableProducer/alice3strangenessFinder.cxx
index 3b31f41cd7d..01a33fbeab1 100644
--- a/ALICE3/TableProducer/alice3strangenessFinder.cxx
+++ b/ALICE3/TableProducer/alice3strangenessFinder.cxx
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ struct Alice3strangenessFinder {
             continue; // combined tracks should be reasonanly close
           }
 
-          if (cascCand.eta > presel.cascMaxEta) {
+          if (std::abs(cascCand.eta) > presel.cascMaxEta) {
             continue; // candidate outside of acceptance
           }