Pesticide Residues Top EU Food Safety Alerts for 2022, a Record Year for Notifications
The year 2022 saw record numbers of food safety notifications transmitted through crucial EU networks, and many notifications related to
noncompliances caused by pesticide residues, according to the European Commission’s Alert and Cooperation Network 2022 Annual Report. The report covers all information shared during 2022 through iRASFF, a web portal that includes the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed network (RASFF), the Administrative Assistance and Cooperation network (AAC), and the Agrifood Fraud Network (FFN).
RASFF enables authorities to rapidly exchange information on serious threats to human health in relation to food or feed, or serious risks to human or animal health or to the environment in relation to feed. AAC allows authorities to share information on cross-border violations of EU agrifood chain legislation that do not present an immediate health risk. Finally, FFN facilitates cooperation on food fraud cases.