Food Safety Alerts from Europe, Week 9
AUSTRIA, ITALY, mussels from Italy
Reason: Escherichia coli (1600 MPN/100g)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No.: 2012.0301
Date: 27/02/2012
DENMARK, oysters from Ireland, via the Netherlands
Reason: norovirus (presence)
Notification Basis: food poisoning
RASFF reference No.: 2012.0306
Date: 28/02/2012
GERMANY, DENMARK, UNITED KINGDOM, ISRAEL, MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF, POLAND, SLOVAKIA, BELGIUM, AUSTRIA, instant tea powder from Taiwan
Reason: unauthorised use of colour E 127 – erythrosine (53.6; 53.8; 47.4 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No.: 2012.0317
Date: 01/03/2012
SPAIN, FRANCE, ANDORRA, dark chocolate spread from Belgium
Reason: undeclared milk ingredient (lactoprotein > 25 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: food poisoning
RASFF reference No.: 2012.0322
Date: 01/03/2012
ITALY, chilled anglerfish (Lophius Piscatorius) from France
Reason: parasitic infestation with Anisakis
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No.: 2012.0308
Date: 28/02/2012
NETHERLANDS, nile perch ( Lates niloticus) from Kenya
Reason: parasitic high count of Pseudomonas spp. (3800000 CFU/g) in and high aerobic plate count (3200000 CFU/g)
Notification Basis: border control
RASFF reference No.: 2012.0309
Date: 28/02/2012
SWEDEN, frozen yellow fin tuna (Thunnus albacares) from Indonesia, with raw material from Vietnam, via Belgium
Reason: histamine
Notification Basis: food poisoning
RASFF reference No.: 2012.0311
Date: 28/02/2012
FRANCE, chilled smoked salmon from Poland
Reason: Listeria monocytogenes (<10 CFU/g)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No.: 2012.0314
Date: 29/02/2012
SWEDEN, chilled mixed minced meat from Denmark and Ireland
Reason: Salmonella (presence /25g)
Notification Basis: company’s own check
RASFF reference No.: 2012.0302
Date: 27/02/2012
ITALY, salted sheep casings from Mongolia
Reason: prohibited substance nitrofuran (metabolite) nitrofurazone (SEM) (1.6 µg/kg – ppb)
Notification Basis: border control
RASFF reference No.: 2012.0310
Date: 28/02/2012
GERMANY, lamb liver from the Netherlands
Reason: dioxins (7.4 – 40.8 pg WHO TEQ/g)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No.: 2012.0313
Date: 28/02/2012
GERMANY, onion mettwurst sausage from Germany
Reason: shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli (presence /25g)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No.: 2012.0319
Date: 01/03/2012
Food Contact Materials
ITALY, plastic dishes from China
Reason: colour migration (470 <-> 560 nm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No.: 2012.0303
Date: 27/02/2012
IRELAND, lids of jars containing carrot pickles from Pakistan
Reason: migration of DEHP – di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (84 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No.: 2012.0318
Date: 01/03/2012
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