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In this section we repeated alert notices from the RASFF system of the European commission issued in the previous month, which we thought to be noteworthy and of interest to our clients.
We will refrain from repeating the numerous reports on all mycotoxin and salmonella limit violations, but show only a selection to pinpoint the risks. However, we like to put your attention to the fact that in numerous cases missing allergen information was categorized as serious and caused border rejections too.
You can analyze the RASFF-site conveniently by yourself using several filter options and limit the notification to those which are of direct interest to your business.
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Chemical Hazards: |
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3-MCPD & glycidyl esters |
Glycidyl esters (1,32 mg/kg MRL: 1 mg/kg ) in sunflower oil |
Unknown (notified by the Netherlands) |
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Glycidyl esters (4,606 mg/kg MRL: |
India |
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Glycidyl esters in vegetable Ghee |
UAE |
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Ethylene oxide / |
2-Chlorethanol (21,3 mg/kg ! ; MRL: 0,01mg/kg) in fat belly |
USA (notified by the Netherlands) |
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EtO (13,5 mg/kg) in Cayenne pepper used in turkey chorizo |
China |
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EtO (0,854 mg/kg; MRL 0,1 mg/kg) in turmeric |
India |
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EtO (1,7 mg/kg; MRL 0,1 mg/kg) in food supplement |
UK |
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Heavy and toxic metals |
Mercury (1,4 mg/kg) in chilled yellowfin tuna |
France |
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Cadmium (2,8 mg/kg MRL 1 mg/kg) in whole mussels |
Chile (notified by France) |
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Histamine |
in canned tuna i(>500 mg/kg) sunflower oil |
China |
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Mycotoxins |
Aflatoxins (14 µg/kg total) in brown Basmati rice |
Pakistan |
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Ochratoxin A (7,3 µg/kg ; MRL 3 µg/kg) in Flour |
Czech Republic |
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Aflatoxins (12,2 µg/kg total) in nutmeg |
Indonesia |
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PAH |
Benzo(a)pyrene (2,9 µg/kg; MRL: 2 µg/kg) in sunflower oil |
Ukraine |
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons 78,8 µg/kg; MRL 50 µg/kg) in white pepper |
Vietnam |
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Benzo(a)pyrene (24,4 & 35,6 µg/kg; MRL: 10 µg/kg) in turmeric |
India |
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Pesticides |
Thiametoxam (0,052 & 0,078 mg/kg MRL: 0,01 mg/kg and non-authorised substance Tricyclazol (0,052 mg/kg & 0,17 mg/kg ! MRL: 0,01 mg/kg) in rice |
India |
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Anthraquinone (0,042 mg/kg ; MRL 0,02 mg/kg) in green tea |
China |
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Chlorpyrifos (0,023 mg/kg; MRL 0,01 mg/kg) in red chilli peppers |
Vietnam |
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Carbofuran (0,033 mg/kg ; MRL 0,01 mg/kg) in organic buckwheat kernels |
China |
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Pyrrolizidine alkaloids |
in cumin (154000 µg/kg !; 2780 µg/kg; 14100 µg/kg !; MRL 400 µg/kg) |
India |
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in cumin (12350 µg/kg ! retested 10560 µg/kg !; MRL 400 µg/kg) |
Turkey |
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Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) |
in food supplement (2305 mg/kg) |
Unknown notified by Czech Republic |
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Microbiological Hazards |
Product |
Origin |
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Bacillus cereus |
in Tofu medaillons with spinach (270.000 CFU/g) |
Italy |
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Listeria monocytogenes |
in cream cheese |
Spain |
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In vegan falafel |
Netherlands |
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in vegetal cheese-like speciality |
France |
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Norovirus* |
in oysters (4) |
France & Netherlands |
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Other Hazards |
Origin |
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Excessive curcumin content (473 mg) in food supplement |
Germany |
YOUR PLUS: *Our laboratory AGROLAB Blasy-Busse is allowed to work with pathogenic food viruses and offers also analysis for Norovirus.
Link: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/rasff-window/
Author: Dr. Frank Mörsberger
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