Food recalls in EU – Week 16/2015

Posted on by Cesare Varallo

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: -ย Packaging defective:ย breakage of glass wine bottle Ottoventi Punto from Italy, following company's own check. Notified by United Kingdom, distributed also to France and Ireland; -ย Pathogenic micro-organisms:ย Listeria monocytogenes (1800 … Continue reading Food recalls in EU – Week 16/2015

QeA to EU Commission – Mandatory information about the food production site

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In Italy there is an ongoing debate about the opportunity to maintain on food labels the indication of the address of the production site of a food as a mandatory particular. This provision was notย expressly foreseenย under Directive 2000/13/EC and is notย mentioned in the Regulation (EU) No. 1169/2011. It was in fact a particular that only … Continue reading QeA to EU Commission – Mandatory information about the food production site