Food recalls in EU – Week 43

– Pathogenic micro-organisms: Listeria Monocytogenes in chilled bacon, following company’s own check. Origin Germany, notification from France;

Between the information for attention notifications, we have another recall:

– Pathogenic micro-organisms: too high count of Escherichia coli in chilled mussels, following an official control on the market. Origin Spain, notification from Italy, distributed also to Greece;

Between the alert notifications, followed by a withdrawal from the market of the product, we find:

– Pathogenic micro-organisms: Listeria Monocytogenes in chilled smoked salmon, following company’s own check. Origin Ireland, notification from France, distributed also to Germany;

– Allergens: undeclared milk in chocolate biscuits, following an official control on the market. Origin France, notification from Spain;

– Allergens: undeclared milk ingredient in rice and chocolate biscuits, following an official control on the market. Origin France, notification from Spain;

– Pathogenic micro-organisms: too high count of Escherichia coli in chilled mussels, following a company’s own check. Origin France, distributed also to Spain;

– Pathogenic micro-organisms: Hepatitis A in frozen mixed berries processed in Italy, with raw material from Poland, Serbia, Chile, Bulgaria, Sweden and Bosnia and Herzegovina, following an official control market. Notification from Italy;

Regarding border rejections we have, among the others, aflatoxins in peanut butter from Benin, in peanuts in shell from China and in dried figs from Turkey, salmonella spp.  in frozen chicken meat preparations from Brazil, excrements of insects in blanched groundnut kernels from Argentina, formetanate in fresh peppers from Turkey, unauthorised substance dichlorvos in dried leguminous from Nigeria, improper health certificate(s) for fresh okra from India, too high content of sulphite in dried apricots from Turkey, acetamiprid in pomegranate from Turkey, unsuitable organoleptic characteristics of deepwater cape hake (Merluccius paradoxus) from South Africa and poor temperature control of frozen Alaska pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) from the United States.

About food contact materials, we have an alert for migration of formaldehyde in plastic bowl from Hungary (notification from Germany).

About feed, we find an alert too, for high content of selenium and migration of cobalt in complete feed for pigs from Netherlands (notification from Germany).

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