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27.04.2018 - Foods

European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) publishes 2016 annual report

In the European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed, various notifications are published based on Article 50 of the EU General Food Law Regulation (EC) No 178/2002. This system was introduced by the EU to provide European control authorities with relevant information about risks and hazards related to food and feed more quickly and thus enable the authorities to take prompt action to avert health hazards or other serious harm to consumers as a preventative measure.

There are different types of notifications such as:

To get an overview of the most important potential health hazards or food safety aspects, it is most useful to evaluate the warning notifications in the RASFF annual report.

The following is a summary of the warning notifications from EU countries in 2016:

A slight increase in warning notifications has been observed in recent years. Detailed information can be found at: ec.europa.eu.

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Source: German Federation for Food Law and Food Science