RASFF Global trends

RASFF (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed) is a system that enables information (notifications) to be shared efficiently between European countries and organizations about food, feed and food contact materials circulating on the European market.

Most notified hazard categories

The hazard categories mentioned are the ones with ≥ 100 notifications in 2017. For each, some key events (contaminant & food matrix) are listed.

Blue Paper on ‘European food safety trends, key issues & perspectives’

This article is a summary of one of the many topics covered in the Blue Paper, a publication of Merieux NutriSciences 2018. Topics like: antibiotic resistance, nano particles, endocrine disrupters, mycotoxins and Plantengif substances, food-borne viruses and salmonella.

The purpose of this Blue Paper is to give the food industry and regulatory authorities a better understanding of nutrition-related health problems. But also to offer an increased vision to the future challenges in the field of food safety.

Order this 74-page reference book Blue Paper 2018 (print) for € 189,-

Download a free online extract on www.foodsafety-report.com

For subscribers of the Dutch Food Industry magazine and members of the Entrepreneurs Society Food Industry (OSV) the price is € 125,- (all prices excl VAT.)

www.foodsafety-report.com