CZECH REPUBLIC, long grain boil-in-bag rice from unknown origin, via Poland
Reason: lead (0.51; 0.293 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0678
Date: 21/05/2012
UNITED KINGDOM, pudding rice from Italy
Reason: foreign body (Possible infestation with rice weevils)
Notification Basis: company’s own check
RASFF reference No: 2012.0685
Date: 22/05/2012
SPAIN, ANDORRA, rice cakes from France
Reason: undeclared gluten (>80 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: consumer complaint
RASFF reference No: 2012.0700
Date: 23/05/2012
ITALY, frozen plaice fillets from the Netherlands
Reason: too high content of E 452 – polyphosphates (6.7)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0684
Date: 22/05/2012
ITALY, fresh norwegian smoked salmon from Poland
Reason: Listeria monocytogenes
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0689
Date: 22/05/2012
CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE, SWITZERLAND, FRANCE, HONG KONG, tins of sardines in oil and tins of sardines with tomatoes from Morocco
Reason: histamine (153; 200; 243; 282 / 277; 387; >550; >735; >926; >700; >1000; 1200 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: company’s own check
RASFF reference No: 2012.0691
Date: 22/05/2012
ITALY, nematodes (live) of chilled monkfish (Lophius piscatorius) from France
Reason: parasitic infestation
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0697
Date: 23/05/2012
ITALY, chilled vacuum packed swordfish fillet (Xiphias gladius) from France
Reason: mercury (1.946 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0705
Date: 24/05/2012
SLOVAKIA, white sour cabbage from Poland
Reason: unauthorised food additive formic acid (1998.35 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0672
Date: 21/05/2012
ESTONIA, dried apricots from Turkey, via Lithuania
Reason: too high content of sulphite (2384 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0679
Date: 21/05/2012
ESTONIA, dried apples from China, via Lithuania
Reason: too high content of sulphite (1071 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0688
Date: 22/05/2012
SLOVAKIA, white sour cabbage from Poland
Reason: unauthorised food additive formic acid (319.44 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0690
Date: 22/05/2012
NETHERLANDS, chinese broccoli from China
Reason: acetamiprid (1.5 mg/kg – ppm) and fipronil (0.33 mg/kg – ppm)
Notification Basis: company’s own check
RASFF reference No: 2012.0695
Date: 23/05/2012
UNITED KINGDOM, black olives from Belgium
Reason: infested with moulds (3000 /g)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0701
Date: 23/05/2012
GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, ground cumin from Turkey and Syria
Reason: Salmonella Caracas (presence /25g)
Notification Basis: official control on the market
RASFF reference No: 2012.0677
Date: 21/05/2012
DENMARK, chilled pate from Belgium
Reason: foreign body (presence of bone fragments size 0,2-0,5)
Notification Basis: consumer complaint
RASFF reference No: 2012.0673
Date: 21/05/2012
