The European Commission has proposed a change to tuna freezing rules to clamp down on food fraud and the risk of consumers getting sick.
Current rules require vessels to have freezing equipment with sufficient capacity to freeze as quickly as possibl
Today, the European Commission published its 2023 report on the Alert and Cooperation Network, which facilitates cooperation and information exchange between Member States on official controls in the agri-food chain. The report reveals a significant
The European Commission has changed the level of inspections on various imported products, including decreases related to ethylene oxide and increases in pesticide residues.
The revised legislation sets the rate of official controls and special condi
The European Commission’s health and safety unit has published findings from two assessments looking at controls on aflatoxins in nuts in Egypt and India.
A DG Sante audit in Egypt in September 2022 was due to continuing Rapid Alert System for Food a
The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) was established to ensure the exchange of information between EU Member States, so that food safety authorities could respond as swiftly as possible to risks to public health. DG SANTE’s Team Leader -
Italian authorities are investigating a case of fish fraud that led to several people suffering from histamine poisoning.
Carabinieri NAS Bari was part of a team that carried out court orders involving 18 people earlier this month. Five people were d
The European Commission published its 2022 report of the Alert and Cooperation Network. The report shows that there was a significant increase in agri-food fraud activity during the year, with the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) remainin
The number of food and beverage recalls in Europe went up in the first few months of 2023, according to an analysis.
Data comes from Sedgwick brand protection’s latest European product recall report and is based on information from the EU’s Rapid Ale
Contaminated shellfish are continuing to cause illnesses in several European countries and Hong Kong.
At least 170 people have fallen ill in Helsinki, Finland, after eating oysters in various restaurants in February and March. Cases have also been re
Ukraine is moderately prepared to meet EU requirements in the area of food safety, according to the European Commission.
Details come from reports published by the EU Commission assessing the capacity of Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia to meet the obli
Countries in the Western Balkans have been told more about how to use an international food safety network.
A two-day workshop, organized by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, was held in Belgrade, Serbia in May 2022.
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In 2013, the horsemeat scandal rocked the nation, forcing widespread change inside the food industry. But has it been enough to stop another incident?
It was a scandal that rocked the food industry. The discovery of horsemeat in certain beef products
Voluntary approaches to tackle certain mycotoxins in dried figs and pistachios in Turkiye don’t seem to be working, according to the European Commission’s health and safety agency.
A remote DG Sante audit, in May and June 2022, included authorities,
The 2018 report on the use of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed, published on 17 September, showed that a total of 3699 notifications of food or feed risks were reported by the Member States to the European Commission last year. Of these, 1118
The report on the use of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed published today shows that a total of 3832 notifications of food or feed risks were reported to the European Commission in 2017. 942 of these were classified as "alert", indicating a s
Fipronil in eggs and Salmonella in poultry meat from Brazil dominated information exchanges between European countries in 2017, according to the annual Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) report.
