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:
- Allergens: undeclared mustard (>13.5 mg/kg – ppm) in gherkins in glass from Germany, following company’s own check. Notified by Germany, distributed also to France;
- Allergens: undeclared gluten and milk ingredient in and insufficient labelling (ingredients list not in English) of basil pesto sauce from Italy, via the United Kingdom, following company’s own check. Notified by Ireland;
- Packaging defective: risk of breakage of glass jars containing Napoli noodle sauce from Italy, following a company’s own check. Notified by Germany;
- Pathogenic micro-organisms: Bacillus cereus (22000; 12000; 28000; 220000; 37000 CFU/g) in dried black mushrooms from China, via Hong Kong, following an official control on the market. Notified by France, distributed also to Belgium and Spain;
- Pesticide residues: dimethoate (0.05 mg/kg – ppm) and fluazifop-P-butyl (0.79 mg/kg – ppm) in savoy cabbage from Belgium, following company’s own check. Notified by Belgium, distributed also to Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Sweden.
2. Information for attention/for follow up followed by a recall from consumers:
- Foreign bodies: rubber seal in chocolate from the United Kingdom, manufactured in Switzerland, following a consumer complaint. Notified by Iceland
3. Alerts followed by a withdrawal from the market:
- Allergens: traces of egg (0.82 g/kg) in frozen minced beef steak and meatballs from Denmark, following a consumer complaint. Notified by Sweden;
- Pathogenic micro-organisms: Clostridium botulinum in sausages from Portugal, following a consumer complaint. Notified from Portugal;
- Pathogenic micro-organisms: Salmonella (presence /25g) in roman cumin powder from Turkey, via the United Kingdom, following food poisoning. Notified by Hungary.
4. Seizures:
None.
5. Border rejections:
- absence of health certificate(s) and absence of certified analytical report for shelled hazelnuts from Turkey
- absence of health certificate(s) for groundnuts from India
- aflatoxins (B1 = 10; Tot. = 11.8 µg/kg – ppb) in hazelnut kernels and (Tot. = 13.35 µg/kg – ppb) in diced roasted hazelnut kernels from Turkey
- aflatoxins (B1 = 32 µg/kg – ppb) in groundnuts for birdfeeding from Brazil
- aflatoxins (B1 = 50; Tot. = 70 µg/kg – ppb) in groundnut kernels and (B1 = 7.8; Tot. = 9.2 µg/kg – ppb) in peanuts in shell from China
- chlorpyrifos (0.26 mg/kg – ppm) in olives in brine from Egypt
- diphenylamine (0.24 mg/kg – ppm) in pears from Argentina
- excessive humidity of black pepper seeds (Piper nigrum) from Brazil infested with moulds
- excessive humidity of pepper from India infested with moulds
- FCM (Food Contact Materials): inner coating peeling off from carbon steel cookware set from China
- FCM (FoodContact Materials): too high level of overall migration (308 mg/kg – ppm) from nitrile gloves from Malaysia
- FCM (Food Contact Materials):migration of chromium (12.79; 9.48; 7.16 mg/kg – ppm) from vegetable slicer from Japan
- malathion (1.1 mg/kg – ppm) in dried parsley from Egypt, via Turkey
- mercury (0.17 mg/kg – ppm) in sugar beet pulp pellets from Russia
- myclobutanil (0.06 mg/kg – ppm) in fresh mint from Morocco
- Salmonella (in 1 out of 5 samples /25g) in betel leaves from India
- Salmonella Derby (presence /25g) and Salmonella Lexington (presence /25g) in rapeseed cake from Belarus
- shelled almonds from the United States infested with larvae of insects
- spoilage of and unsuitable transport conditions for dried ginger from India
- unauthorised and undeclared E 954 – saccharin in juice drink from Russia
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