Food recalls in EU – Week 2/2015

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: - Industrial contaminants: benzo(a)pyrene (12.7 µg/kg - ppb) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (57.42 µg/kg - ppb) in sprats pate from Latvia, following an official control on the market. Notified by … Continue reading Food recalls in EU – Week 2/2015

Food recalls in EU – Week 19 – 2014

This week on the RASFF database (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed) we have three recalls from consumers in EU in the alert notification: - Poor or insufficient controls: inadequate thermal processing on plum bread and butter pudding, following a consumer complaint. Origin United Kingdom, notified by United Kingdom, distributed also to Ireland; - Pathogenic micro-organisms: Bacillus Cereus in sweet peppers, following an official control … Continue reading Food recalls in EU – Week 19 – 2014