[EU]. RASFF NOTIFICATION: NON-COMPLIANCE PRODUCTS IN JUN 2024.

In Jun 2024, there were 429 notifications on the RASFF Portal including 396 foods, 20 animal feeds and 13 food contact material notifications.

In food, fruits and vegetables are still the products that account for the most cases (72 notifications), followed by nuts, nut products and seeds (55 notifications) and poultry meat and poultry meat products (48 notifications).
There were highlight alerts reported this month:

Microbiology: Most notable is the detection of Salmonella in poultry products originating from Brazil (26 warnings); detected Listeria monocytogenes and E.coi 103 in milk and dairy products; Bacillus cereus in chili sauce; Clostridium botulinum in canned mushrooms originating from Russia.
Pesticides: Detecting residues of the banned active ingredient Ethylene oxide from spice and sauce products originating from India; Chlopyrifos still remains in fruit and vegetable products, and the frequency of residues of acetamiprid, imidacloprid, metalaxyl, carbendazim, Azoxystrobin exceeding the MRL threshold is quite frequent in fruit and vegetable groups.
Toxins: Acrylamide content is too high in snacks originating from the UK, Aflatoxin in the nut group is quite high.
Food additive: Detecting cakes originating from the Philippines using banned colorant E 110- Sunset Yellow FC, E220 Sulfur dioxide content is too high in dried apricots originating from Turkey, soft drinks originating from the USA using too much sucralose.
Antibiotics: detecting banned substances such as nitrofuran, leuco-malachite green in seafood
Allergies: lack of declaration of allergies to sesame seeds, soybeans, peanuts, eggs, sulfite content is too high in dried apricots.
Other pollutants: Noteworthy are cases of Hg residue, histamine, PAHs residue exceeding the permitted level in fish; high Pb residue in cocoa, kumquat and meat.

Vietnam: in June, Vietnam received warnings from France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Poland and the Netherlands. Details are in the table below:

Time	Notifying country	Category food	Product	Category Hazard	Hazard	Analytical result (mg/kg)	MRL	Risk deccision
28/06/2024	France	Crustaceans and products thereof	Shrimp	Pathogenic micro-organisms	Vibrio parahaemolyticus	Detected, TRH +	Negative	Potentially serious
26/06/2024	Netherlands	Cephalopods and products thereof	Frozen squid (Loligo edulis)	Heavy metals	Cadmium	1.5	1.0	Serious
25/06/2024	Netherlands	Cephalopods and products thereof	Shrimps	Pathogenic micro-organisms	Vibrio vulnificus	Present /25g	Not present /25g	Potentially serious
25/06/2024	Netherlands	Cephalopods and products thereof	Shrimps	Pathogenic micro-organisms	Vibrio parahaemolyticus	Present /25g	Not present /25g	Potentially serious
21/06/2024	Spain	Crustaceans and products thereof	Frozen raw breaded whiteleg shrimps (Litopenaeus vannamei)	Allergens	Egg - undeclared - allergens	2.0 mg/Kg(LC 0.5ppm H.polvo) mg/kg		Potentially serious
18/06/2024	Germany	Cereals and bakery products	Rice noodles	Genetically modified	Genetically modified - unauthorised - genetically modified			Potentially serious
18/06/2024	Spain	Food additives and flavourings	Basil essential oil // Aceite esencial de albahaca	Migration	Phthalate DEHP - di(2-ethylhexyl) - migration	45 ± 23	0,6	Serious
18/06/2024	Spain	Food additives and flavourings	Basil essential oil // Aceite esencial de albahaca	Migration	Phthalate DEHP - di(2-ethylhexyl) - migration - migration	110 ± 55	0,6	Serious
18/06/2024	Spain	Food additives and flavourings	Basil essential oil // Aceite esencial de albahaca	Migration	Phthalate DEHP - di(2-ethylhexyl) - migration - migration	150 ± 75	0,6	Serious
17/06/2024	Slovenia	Fish and fish products	Clarias gariepinus	Residues of veterinary medicinal products	Leucomalachite green	0.90 µg/kg	0.50 µg/kg	Serious
17/06/2024	France	Fruits and vegetables	Durians	Pesticide residues	Lambda-cyhalothrin	0.065±0.033	0,010	Potentially serious
17/06/2024	France	Fruits and vegetables	Durians	Pesticide residues	Acetamiprid	0.14±0.07	0,010	Potentially serious
17/06/2024	France	Fruits and vegetables	Durians	Pesticide residues	Dimethomorph	0.54±0.27	0,010	Potentially serious
17/06/2024	Italy	Fruits and vegetables	Durians	Pesticide residues	Carbendazim	6,3 +/- 3,2	0,1	Serious
17/06/2024	Italy	Fruits and vegetables	Durians	Pesticide residues	Fipronil	0,042 +/- 0,021	0,005	Serious
17/06/2024	Italy	Fruits and vegetables	Durians	Pesticide residues	Azoxystrobin	3,2 +/- 1,6	0,01	Serious
17/06/2024	Italy	Fruits and vegetables	Durians	Pesticide residues	Dimethomorph	0,096 +/- 0,048	0,01	Serious
17/06/2024	Italy	Fruits and vegetables	Durians	Pesticide residues	Metalaxyl	0,051 +/- 0,026	0,01	Serious
17/06/2024	Slovenia	Fish and fish products	Clarias gariepinus	Residues of veterinary medicinal products	Leucomalachite green	0,87 µg/kg	0,5 µg/kg	Serious
10/06/2024	Poland	Cocoa and cocoa preparations, coffee and tea		Pesticide residues	Anthraquinone	0,23 ± 0,12	0,02	Serious
10/06/2024	Poland	Cocoa and cocoa preparations, coffee and tea		Pesticide residues	Lambda-cyhalothrin	0,040 ± 0,020	0,01
10/06/2024	Poland	Cocoa and cocoa preparations, coffee and tea		Pesticide residues	Acetamiprid	0,16± 0,08	0,05
10/06/2024	Poland	Cocoa and cocoa preparations, coffee and tea		Pesticide residues	Imidacloprid	0,12± 0,06	0,05
05/06/2024	Spain	Herbs and spices	Organic cassia powder	pathogenic micro-organisms	Clostridium perfringens	130 , 200 , 10 , 40 CFU/g	100 - 1000 CFU/g	Potentially serious
03/06/2024	Italy	Bivalve molluscs and products thereof	Frozen cooked yellow clam meat	environmental pollutants	Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)	3,8 ± 1,0 µg/kg - ppb	0,70 µg/kg - ppb	Serious

[EU]. RASFF NOTIFICATION: NON-COMPLIANCE PRODUCTS IN JUN 2024.

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