This week on the RASFF database (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed) we have one recall from consumers in EU in the alert notification: - Food additives and flavourings: unauthorised colour E 128 - Red 2G, E 110, Sunset Yellow (FCF), E 124 - Ponceau 4R/cochineal red A in sliced ginger pickles, following an official control on the market. Origin Japan (via Netherlands), … Continue reading Food recalls in EU – Week 10 – 2014
EU Council approved new preservative on meat products
The EU Council, during the Justice and Home Affairs meeting on 3 and 4 March 2014, decided not to oppose the adoption of a regulation authorising ethyl lauroyl arginate as a preservative in heat-treated meat products in order to improve the microbiological quality of those food products, including inhibiting the growth of harmful micro-organisms such as Listeria monocytogenes … Continue reading EU Council approved new preservative on meat products
