Analysis of data from the rapid alert system for food and feed for the country-of-origin Slovakia for 2002-2020.

ABSTRACT: The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) plays a pivotal role in regulating food safety in the European Union by enabling the competent authorities in each Member State to issue warnings for removing unsafe or illegal items from the market. This article undertakes a comprehensive analysis of RASFF data on Slovak food from 2002 to 2020, to investigate the trends in notifications, actions executed, hazard categories, and product categories within the food industry. Our scrutiny of the RASFF data revealed fluctuations in the counts of alerts and information notifications across years, indicating periods of heightened hazard detection and enhanced transparency within the system. Various measures, including destruction, recall, notification, and prohibition, were employed to address the

SUBMITTER: Capla J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10756971 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature