scholarly journals Salmonella is the most common foodborne pathogen in African food exports to the European Union: Analysis of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (1999–2019)

Food Control ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 107849
Author(s):  
Yinka M. Somorin ◽  
Olumide A. Odeyemi ◽  
Collins N. Ateba
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Foodborne Pathogen ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Rapid Alert System

scholarly journals Compliance of Lebanese Pickling Industry with Lebanese and International Standards

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 1559-1563
Author(s):  
Sami Tlais ◽  
Hayat Omairi ◽  
Ali Al Khatib ◽  
Hassan HajjHussein
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
New Products ◽  
International Standards ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Alert System ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Rapid Alert System

In light of recent news reporting the use of banned colorants in Lebanese-made pickled turnips exported to the European Union (EU) by the Rapid Alert System of Food and Feed (RASFF), The Lebanese Consumer Protection Association tested samples of pickled turnips being sold to the public and confirmed the use of rhodamine B. Many products were pulled off the market and were replaced with new products that were supposed to be free of any banned colorants. We selected 5 different brands of pickled turnips and tested them for pH, salinity, nitrites, and colorants. We tested the salinity using two methods: evaporation and titration. The concentration of nitrites was tested by absorbency method. The presence of colorants was determined using TLC and absorbency method. We determined that the newly released pickled turnips comply with the rules and regulations adopted by the Lebanese Standards Institution (LIBNOR) and the international standards according to the Codex Alimentarius.

Clear-cut Legal Basis for the RASFF: Mere Formalisation or a Concrete Move Forward?

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
Aude Mahy
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Legal Certainty ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Food Law ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Rapid Alert System

The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (the socalled ‘RASFF’) is at the heart of food risk management within the European Union. It aims at providing authorities with an effective tool for exchanging information on measures taken to ensure food safety. It was created in 2002 by the General Food Law Regulation to help Member States to coordinate their food safety actions. Nearly ten years later, the adoption of Regulation 16/2011 of 10 January 2011, laying down implementing measures for the RASFF, intends to clarify the specific conditions and procedures applicable to the transmission of notifications through this tool, thus providing more legal certainty in the system.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of the European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed: Tendencies in Illegal Food Supplements for Weight Loss

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorottya Koncz ◽  
Barbara Tóth ◽  
Orsolya Roza ◽  
Dezső Csupor
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
European Union ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Food Supplements ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Synthetic Drug ◽  
Rapid Alert System

Background: Slimming products represent a dynamically growing group of food supplements worldwide. The efficacy of safely usable natural ingredients is usually below consumers’ expectations. Certain manufacturers add unauthorized or prohibited ingredients to weight loss supplements in order to increase their efficacy. Hence, many of these products are adulterated and may pose a risk to the consumers’ health.Aims: The aim of our work was to give an overview on natural ingredients used in slimming products, to summarize the frequently used synthetic adulterants and also to assess the trends of adulterated and illegal food supplements in the European Union based on the warnings of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) in the time period of 1988–2019.Methods: Reports between 1988–2019 were extracted from the RASFF portal on January 1, 2020. Each entry was individually reviewed.Results: 2,559 records of food supplements with quality problems were identified in the RASFF, several of which [319 (12,5%)] were marketed to facilitate weight loss. 202 (63,3%) contained unapproved, synthetic drug ingredients. The major adulterant (113 of 319, 35.4%) was DNP (2,4-dinitrophenol), whereas sibutramine was the second most frequent adulterant agent (69 products, 21,6%) between 1988 and 2019.Conclusion: The number of approved medicines for the indication of weight loss is relatively low and their efficacy (and also that of the natural ingredients) is limited. Therefore, a significant number of weight loss supplements is adulterated to satisfy patients’ expectations. Hence, these products may cause serious adverse effects in sensitive patients.

scholarly journals Monitoring the traceability, safety and authenticity of imported palm oils in Europe

OCL ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. A603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirstie A. Goggin ◽  
Denis J. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Vegetable Oils ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Oil Supply ◽  
Robust Techniques ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Rapid Alert System

This article describes the challenges of regulating and monitoring traceability and certification systems, and of ensuring the safety and authenticity of foodstuffs imported into Europe, particularly focusing on palm oils. Several measures have been implemented within palm oil supply chains to ensure that traceability can be monitored. However, these supply chains can be highly complex and, more often than not, full traceability is not achievable for stakeholders who only have access to existing systems. In Europe, measures for authenticity of palm oils are not presently as robust as those for other vegetable oils, which means that sometimes unsafe and inauthentic palm oils, often already incorporated into other products, can make their way onto supermarket shelves for unsuspecting consumers. Such instances are usually rare and are normally detected before products are purchased by consumers. Nevertheless, it is still the case that the addition of illegal and potentially harmful additives to palm oils destined for export to Europe is a regular occurrence, alerts for which can be found on the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) portal. As the European Union has committed to only accept authenticated “sustainably sourced” palm oils, it is even more important to ensure that such imported oils are really from the declared source, preferably via proven analytical methods. This makes it more important that accurate and robust techniques are developed and implemented for verifying the provenance and authenticity of palm oils and their downstream products. Here, we review the underlying regulatory framework relating to traceability and authentication and assess some new and emerging chemically-based technologies that should contribute to improving the monitoring of palm oil and other vegetable oil supply chains in Europe and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Mycobacteria in water, feedstocks and food: analysis of publications

2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (No. 12) ◽  
pp. 571-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kaevska ◽  
K. Hruska
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
European Union ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Food Analysis ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Rapid Alert System

Papers on mycobacteria in food, feed and water, published between 1945 and 2010 and indexed in the database Web of Science<sup>&reg;</sup> (Thomson Reuters) were ranked according to authors, institutions, countries and source titles. The total number of papers on mycobacteria and food and mycobacteria and water were 1486 and 1419, respectively. More than 40% of papers have been published in the last five years. In addition to publications in peer reviewed journals the archives of ProMED-mail and the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed of the European Union were also searched. It is evident that much attention is being paid to mycobacteria in food, feed and water as they likely pose a public health risk. &nbsp;

scholarly journals Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed: the semicarbazide notifications

2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (No. 11) ◽  
pp. 561-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Hruska ◽  
M. Franek
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Product Categories ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Veterinary Antibiotic ◽  
Rapid Alert System ◽  
The Eu

The recently instituted and easily accessible Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) has been tested on the semicarbazid (SEM), the residue of veterinary antibiotic nitrofurazone, using the RASFF Database Portal launched in July 2009 by the European Commission. The database holds weekly overviews, published by the EU for 30 years from 1979 and offers a number of other possibilities, such as searching for subjects of notification, the date of notification, notifying countries and product categories, countries of product origin and distribution. There is no doubt that the new database portal is an important contribution of the European Union to food safety and consumer protection.

Anisakis notification in fish: An assessment of the cases reported in the European Union rapid alert system for food and feed (RASFF) database

Food Control ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 107913
Author(s):  
Andreia Juliana Rodrigues Caldeira ◽  
Carla Patrícia Pereira Alves ◽  
Maria João Santos
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Rapid Alert System

scholarly journals Analysis of E.U. Rapid Alert System (RASFF) Notifications for Aflatoxins in Exported U.S. Food and Feed Products for 2010–2019

Toxins ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Ahmad Alshannaq ◽  
Jae-Hyuk Yu
Keyword(s):  
Animal Feed ◽  
The United States ◽  
Export Market ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Agricultural Export ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pistachio Nuts ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Rapid Alert System

The most common, toxic, and carcinogenic mycotoxins found in human food and animal feed are the aflatoxins (AFs). The United States is a leading exporter of various nuts, with a marketing value of $9.1 billion in 2019; the European Union countries are the major importers of U.S. nuts. In the past few years, border rejections and notifications for U.S. tree nuts and peanuts exported to the E.U. countries have increased due to AF contamination. In this work, we analyzed notifications from the “Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF)” on U.S. food and feed products contaminated with mycotoxins, primarily AFs, for the 10-year period 2010–2019. Almost 95% of U.S. mycotoxin RASFF notifications were reported for foods and only 5% for feeds. We found that 98.9% of the U.S. food notifications on mycotoxins were due to the AF contamination in almond, peanut, and pistachio nuts. Over half of these notifications (57.9%) were due to total AF levels greater than the FDA action level in food of 20 ng g−1. The Netherlands issued 27% of the AF notifications for U.S. nuts. Border rejection was reported for more than 78% of AF notifications in U.S. nuts. All U.S. feed notifications on mycotoxins occurred due to the AF contamination. Our research contributes to better understanding the main reasons behind RASFF mycotoxins notifications of U.S. food and feed products destined to E.U. countries. Furthermore, we speculate possible causes of this problem and provide a potential solution that could minimize the number of notifications for U.S. agricultural export market.

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