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 milk ingredient (>67.5; 32 mg/kg – ppm) in organic chocolate flavoured soy drink from France, following company’s own check. Notified by France, distributed also to Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain.
2. Information for attention/for follow up followed by a recall from consumers:
None.
3. Alerts followed by a withdrawal from the market:
- Composition: risk of overdosage with nicotinic acid (1528 mg/kg – ppm) from consuming food supplement from the United States, via the Netherlands, following an official control on the market. Notified by France;
- FCM (Food Contact Materials): migration of primary aromatic amines (0.036 µg/kg – ppm) from stainless steel, nylon turner from Hong Kong, via Slovakia, following an official control on the market. Notified by Poland;
- FCM (Food Contact Materials): migration of primary aromatic amines (0.054g µg/kg – ppb) from nylon spoon from Hong Kong, via Slovakia, following an official control on the market. Notified by Poland;
- Pathogenic micro-organisms: shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli (stx1/ stx2+, O174 presence/25g) in frozen kangaroo fillet from Australia, following an official control on the market. Notified by Netherlands, distributed also to Belgium and Germany.
4. Seizures:
- Pathogenic micro-organisms: shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli (presence/25g) in roast beef from Germany, following an official control on the market. Notified by Italy.
5. Border rejections:
- absence of certified analytical report for sesame sauce from China
- acetamiprid (0.682 mg/kg – ppm) in fresh peppers from Turkey
- aflatoxins (B1 = 10.5; Tot. = 17.2 µg/kg – ppb) in dried figs, in dried fig cubes (B1 = 9.7; Tot. = 21.5 µg/kg – ppb) and in dried figs with rice flour (B1 = 18.49; Tot. = 19.2 µg/kg – ppb) from Turkey
- aflatoxins (B1 = 12.9; Tot. = 14.6 µg/kg – ppb) in raw pistachios in shell from Iran
- aflatoxins (B1 = 14.9; Tot. = 16.1 µg/kg – ppb) in nutmeg powder from India
- aflatoxins (B1 = 3.44 / B1 = 3.46 µg/kg – ppb) in groundnuts blanched from Brazil
- aflatoxins (B1 = 6 µg/kg – ppb) in groundnut kernels and in granulated dried chili (B1 = 69; Tot. = 77 µg/kg – ppb) from China
- attempt to illegally import frozen hake (Merluccius merluccius) from Senegal
- benzo(a)pyrene (3.73 µg/kg – ppb) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (14.35 µg/kg – ppb) in refined bleached deodorized palm olein from Malaysia
- chlorpyrifos (0.42 mg/kg – ppm) and unauthorised substance phenthoate (0.06 mg/kg – ppm) in olives in brine (whole black picual olives) from Egypt
- E 385 – calcium disodium ethylene diamine tetra acetate (CDEDTA) unauthorised and unauthorised food additive brominated vegetable oil (BVO) in carbonated drink from Kuwait
- ethion (0.17 mg/kg – ppm) in raisins from Iran
- FEED: Salmonella (presence in 4 of 13 samples /25g) in fish meal from Mauritania
- fosthiazate (0.063 mg/kg – ppm) in fresh pepper from Turkey
- fraudulent health certificate(s) for frozen yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) from Belize
- mercury (0.84 mg/kg – ppm) in chilled John Dory (Zeus faber) from Tunisia
- Salmonella (detected /25g) in betel leaves from India
- shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli (O142:H38 /25g) in frozen boneless beef (bos taurus) from Brazil
- tau-fluvalinate (0.027 mg/kg – ppm) in sweet peppers from Turkey
- too high content of vitamin D (2500% of NRVs), of vitamin B12 (40000% of NRVs) and of vitamin E (2225% NRVs) and unauthorised novel food ingredient leaves of Annona muricata and novel food ingredient raspberry ketone in food supplements from the United States
- unauthorised substance dithiocarbamates (0.093 mg/kg – ppm) in dragon fruit from Vietnam
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