Food Safety Alerts from Europe, Week 22
Reason: high count of Escherichia coli (270 MPN/100g)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0722
Date: 28/05/2012
FRANCE, ITALY, frozen blue shark (Prionace glauca) from Spain, manufactured in Italy
Reason: mercury (1.89 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: company’s own check
RASFF reference No: 2012.0723
Date: 28/05/2012
SLOVAKIA, white sour cabbage from Poland
Reason: unauthorised food additive formic acid (1699.49 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0724
Date: 28/05/2012
SLOVAKIA, UNITED KINGDOM, white sour cabbage from Poland
Reason: unauthorised food additive formic acid (300.44 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0736
Date: 30/05/2012
NORWAY, tamarillo from Colombia, via Belgium
Reason: omethoate (0.046 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0743
Date: 31/05/2012
NORWAY, NETHERLANDS, fresh strawberries from Spain
Reason: foreign body (Snake (Natrix maura) non toxic (1))
Notification Basis: consumer complaint
RASFF reference No: 2012.0753
Date: 01/06/2012
DENMARK, AUSTRIA, GERMANY, rump steak from Argentina
Reason: shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli (stx1 and stx2 positive; presence /25g)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0738
Date: 30/05/2012
SWEDEN, minced meat products from Sweden
Reason: Salmonella spp. (presence /25g)
Notification Basis: company’s own check
RASFF reference No: 2012.0742
Date: 30/05/2012
LUXEMBOURG, FRANCE, BELGIUM, goat cheese from Belgium
Reason: Listeria monocytogenes (presence /25g)
Notification Basis: company’s own check
RASFF reference No: 2012.0755
Date: 01/06/2012
HUNGARY, walnut kernels from Bulgaria, via Austria
Reason: infested with larvae of insects
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0731
Date: 29/05/2012
FRANCE, mechanically separated frozen poultry meat from the Netherlands
Reason: Salmonella paratyphi b (presence /25g)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0729
Date: 29/05/2012
ITALY, poultry cutlets from Germany
Reason: Salmonella spp. (presence /25g)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0740
Date: 30/05/2012
LATVIA, turkey minced meat from Poland, via Lithuania
Reason: Salmonella Chartres (presence /25g)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0752
Date: 01/06/2012
Food Contact Materials
IRELAND, masher from China
Reason: migration of primary aromatic amines (0.028; 0.022; 0.024 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0734
Date: 30/05/2012
ITALY, lids of glass jars containing slices of tuna in olive oil from Spain
Reason: migration of epoxidised soybean oil (ESBO) (60 mg/kg – ppm) and too high level of total migration
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0745
Date: 31/05/2012
IRELAND, soup ladle from China
Reason: migration of primary aromatic amines (12.726; 14.119; 12.450 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0748
Date: 31/05/2012
ITALY, lids of glass jars containing grilled artichokes from Italy
Reason: too high level of total migration (154 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0749
Date: 31/05/2012
ITALY, melamine plate from China
Reason: migration of formaldehyde (32 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0750
Date: 31/05/2012
CYPRUS, plastic kitchen utensil – spatula from Hong Kong
Reason: migration of primary aromatic amines (92 µg/l)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0754
Date: 01/06/2012