diff --git a/PWGLF/TableProducer/Strangeness/strangenessbuilder.cxx b/PWGLF/TableProducer/Strangeness/strangenessbuilder.cxx
index c3f065876a6..bca1b08b07f 100644
--- a/PWGLF/TableProducer/Strangeness/strangenessbuilder.cxx
+++ b/PWGLF/TableProducer/Strangeness/strangenessbuilder.cxx
@@ -771,6 +771,9 @@ struct StrangenessBuilder {
     if (DeduplicationOpts.deduplicationAlgorithm.value == 4 || DeduplicationOpts.deduplicationAlgorithm.value == 6) {
       if (DeduplicationOpts.loadModelsFromCCDB) {
 
+        // Retrieve the model from CCDB
+        ccdbApi.init(ccdbConfigurations.ccdburl);
+
         /// Fetching model for specific timestamp
         LOG(info) << "Fetching model for timestamp: " << DeduplicationOpts.timestampCCDB.value;