This week on the EU RASFF (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed) we can find the following notifications:
1. Alerts followed by a recall from consumers:
– Additives and flavourings: undeclared sulphite (740 mg/kg – ppm) in dried apricots from Poland, following an official control on the market. Notified by United Kingdom;
– Pathogenic micro-organisms: Salmonella enteritidis in frozen minced meat from Poland, following a food poisoning. Notified by France;
– Pathogenic micro-organisms: Listeria monocytogenes (presence /25g) in sliced beef tongues from Belgium, with raw material from the Netherlands, following company’s own check. Notified by Belgium, distributed also to Luxembourg and United Kingdom.
2. Information for attention/for follow up followed by a recall from consumers:
None
3. Alerts followed by a withdrawal from the market:
– Residues of veterinary medicinal products: residue level above MRL for salinomycin (18.4 µg/kg – ppb) in frozen chicken from France, following company’s own check. Notified by Belgium, distributed also to Luxembourg;
– Suffocation risk as a result of the consumption (large pieces of pasta) of organic baby food from Germany, following company’s own check. Notified by Netherlands, distributed also to Belgium.
4. Seizures:
We have a seizure in Italy of frozen swordfish loins from Portugal containing mercury (1.6 mg/kg – ppm).
5. Border rejections:
- FCM: absence of certified analytical report for melamine kitchenware from Hong Kong
- absence of health certificate(s) for fig jam from Turkey
- aflatoxins (B1 = 42; Tot. = 55 µg/kg – ppb) in dried figs and diced dried figs (B1 = 19.7; Tot. = 33 µg/kg – ppb) from Turkey
- aflatoxins (B1 = 31 µg/kg – ppb) in nutmeg from Indonesia
- cyfluthrin (0.19 mg/kg – ppm) in strawberries from Egypt
- dead insects in groundnuts in shell from Egypt
- endosulfan II (0.25 mg/kg – ppm) and unauthorised substance carbofuran (0.029 mg/kg – ppm) in aubergines from the Dominican Republic
- fenvalerate (0.63 mg/kg – ppm) in beans from Bangladesh
- fosthiazate (0.056 mg/kg – ppm) in sweet peppers from Turkey
- groundnut kernels from Argentina infested with moulds
- improper health certificate(s) for groundnuts from Egypt
- orthophenylphenol (0.35 mg/kg – ppm) in tea from China
- Salmonella spp. (presence /25g) in betel leaves and sesame seeds from India
- too high content of sulphite (2848 mg/kg – ppm) in dried apricots from Turkey
- unauthorised novel food ingredient Dendrobium nobile in fruit punch from the United States
- unauthorised substance chlorfluazuron (0.056 mg/kg – ppm) in tea from Morocco
- unauthorised substance profenofos (0.027 mg/kg – ppm) in basmati rice from India
- unauthorised use of colour E 127 – erythrosine in strawberry flavoured cream biscuits from India
