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 soya (4.1 mg/kg – ppm) in organic sauce thickener from Germany, following an official control on the market. Notified by Finland;
- Allergens: undeclared soya (2.8 mg/kg – ppm) in organic gluten free pasta from Hungary, via Germany, following an official control on the market. Notified by Finland;
- Packaging defective: risk of breakage of beer bottles from Italy, following an official control on the market. Notified by United Kingdom;
- Pathogenic micro-organisms: shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli (stx1+ /25g) in raw milk cheese from France, following an official control on the market. Notified by Germany, distributed also to Belgium and Switzerland.
2. Information for attention/for follow up followed by a recall from consumers:
- Non pathogenic micro-organisms: gluten free ravioli pasta with ricotta and spinach filling from Sweden infested with moulds, following company’s own check. Notified by Denmark.
3. Alerts followed by a withdrawal from the market:
- FCM (Food Contact Materials): migration of primary aromatic amines (0.31; 2.8; 4 mg/kg – ppm) from plastic whisks from China, following an official control on the market. Notified by Czech Republic, distributed also to Austria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine and Macedonia;
- Foreign bodies: glass fragments in ice cream from France, following a consumer complaint. Notified by Denmark, distributed also to Greenland and Faeroe Islands;
- Heavy metals: mercury (5.4 mg/kg – ppm) in food supplements from India, via the United Kingdom, following an official control on the market. Notified by Sweden.
4. Seizures:
None.
5. Border rejections:
- absence of health certificate(s) for chiwda tikha snacks from India and for peanut butter from China
- acetamiprid (0.027 mg/kg – ppm) in vine leaves in brine from Syria
- aflatoxins (B1 = > 24 µg/kg – ppb) in shelled almonds and shelled pistachios (B1 = 36; Tot. = 42 µg/kg – ppb) from the United States
- aflatoxins (B1 = 30; Tot. = 33 µg/kg – ppb) in roasted almonds and pistachios from Turkey
- aflatoxins (B1 = 39.2; Tot. = 45.0 µg/kg – ppb) in peanuts in shell from China
- aflatoxins (B1 = 48; Tot. = 50.8 µg/kg – ppb) in pistachios from Iran
- damaged packaging of sardins in brine from Morocco
- fenpropathrin (0.11 mg/kg – ppm) in basil from Laos, via Vietnam
- improper health certificate(s) for roasted hazelnuts from Turkey
- methamidophos (0.027 mg/kg – ppm) in red chilli peppers from Laos, dispatched from Thailand, via Vietnam
- poor temperature control (between -13.9 and -9.4 °C) of frozen common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) from Morocco
- Salmonella (detected /25g) and too high count of Enterobacteriaceae (1.1 * 1000 MPN/g) in dog chews from Brazil
- Salmonella (in 2 out of 5 samples /25g) in frozen salted chicken breasts from Thailand
- Salmonella (presence /25g) and Salmonella Dallgow (presence/25g) in hulled sesame seeds and sesame seeds from India
- Salmonella Derby (2 out of 5 samples /25g) and Salmonella Lexington (5 out of 5 samples /25g) in rapeseed cake from Belarus
- FCM (Food Contact Materials): too high level of overall migration (126 mg/kg – ppm) from medical gloves from China
- unsuitable organoleptic characteristics of frozen monkfish (Lophius spp.) from China
- Vibrio cholerae NON O:1/NON O:139 (presence /25g) in frozen shrimps (Penaeus monodon) from Vietnam
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