2019 IMPORT BORDER REJECTIONS EDIBLE NUTS & DRIED FRUITS EU - USA - JAPAN - AUSTRALIA The INC International Nut and Dried Fruit - Promoting research and scientific Council was founded in 1983 to endorse studies. activities that provide its membership with - Promoting international cooperation by new opportunities for increasing global interacting with public, private, national consumption of almonds, Amazonia (Brazil) and international organizations that nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, share our common goals. pecans, pine nuts, pistachios, walnuts, - Increasing goodwill and mutual peanuts, apricot kernels, dates, dried understanding of the nut and dried fruit apricots, dried cranberries, dried figs, prunes, industry by promoting international raisins, sultanas and currants by: meetings in producing and consuming countries. - Collecting and distributing a single source of annual statistical information INC is the International source for information from producing and consuming on nuts and dried fruits for: Health, Nutrition, countries. Food Safety, Statistics, Government - Ensuring that global quality standards Standards and Government regulations and trading terms are within the regarding trade barriers and trade quality framework of existing national and standards. international bodies and do not inhibit trade within the industry. - Promoting research and scientific studies. - Promoting international cooperation by interacting with public, private, national and international organizations that share our common goals. - Increasing goodwill and mutual understanding of the nut and dried fruit 1 industry by promoting international EU-RASFF meetings in producing and consuming USA 46 countries. JAPAN 69 INC is the International source for information AUSTRALIA 82 on nuts and dried fruits for: Health, Nutrition, Food Safety, Statistics, Government Standards and Government regulations regarding trade barriers and trade quality standards. trade trade ality standads.regulations regardi INC - International Nut and Dried Fruit Council 2019 EU RASFF NOTIFICATIONS EDIBLE NUTS AND DRIED FRUITS 2019 EU-RASFF INC - International Nut and Dried Fruit Council TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 EDIBLE NUTS. GENERAL OVERVIEW 5 PEANUTS (GROUNDNUTS) 11 PISTACHIOS 14 ALMONDS 17 HAZELNUTS 20 PEANUT PRODUCTS 23 APRICOT KERNELS 25 MIXTURES 26 OTHERS 27 PEANUTS (GROUNDNUTS) FEED 29 DRIED FRUITS. GENERAL OVERVIEW 30 DRIED FIGS 36 DRIED GRAPES 39 DRIED APRICOTS 42 OTHERS 44 2019 EU-RASFF INC - International Nut and Dried Fruit Council 2. The Legal Basis Regulation (EC) N° 16/2011 lays down implementing rules for the RASFF. It entered INTRODUCTION The legal basis of the RASFF is Regulation into force on 31 January 2011. The 1. Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (EC) Nº 178/2002, published in the European Regulation lays down requirements for Official Journal L.31 of 1 February 2002. members of the network and the procedure The RASFF is an effective tool to exchange for transmission of the different types of information within EU Member States about Article 50 of this Regulation establishes the notifications. A difference is made between measures taken in response to serious risks rapid alert system for food and feed as a notifications requiring rapid action (alert detected in relation to food or feed. This network involving its members. Whenever a notifications) and other notifications exchange of information helps Member member of the network has any information (information notifications and border rejection States to act more rapidly and in a relating to the existence of a serious direct or notifications). coordinated manner in response to a health indirect risk to human health deriving from threat caused by food or feed. food or feed, this information is immediately 3. Members notified to the Commission under the RASFF. The INC report collects and classifies all 2018 The Commission immediately transmits this The RASFF list of members includes the 28 RASFF notifications for nuts and dried fruits information to the members of the network. EU Member States, the European intended for food published in the RASFF Article 50.3 of the Regulation lays down Commission, as member and manager of the portal web page, regarding product, country additional criteria for when a RASFF system, the European Food Safety Authority of origin, notifying country and type of notification is required. (EFSA), Norway, Liechtenstein, Switzerland notification. and Iceland. Member States shall immediately notify the The report also includes notifications for Commission under the rapid alert system of: peanuts intended for feed, which are not 4. Notifications included in the general overview, summary or - Any measure they adopt which is aimed at 2010-2018 comparisons. restricting the placing on the market or The system differentiates between ‘market’ forcing the withdrawal from the market or notifications and border rejections. According Some caution is needed when drawing the recall of food or feed in order to protect to the seriousness of the risks identified and conclusions from this report, for example, it is human health and requiring rapid action. the distribution of the product on the market, not because a Member State has a relatively - Any recommendation or agreement with the market notification is classified as alert high number of notifications that the situation professional operators which is aimed, on notification or information notification. regarding food safety is disastrous in that a voluntary or obligatory basis, at country. On the contrary, it could indicate that preventing, limiting or imposing specific Alert Notifications a greater number of food checks are carried conditions on the placing on the market or - Alert notifications are sent when a food or out. The analysis shall consider trade the eventual use of food or feed on feed presenting a serious risk is on the volumes through Member States. account of a serious risk to human health market or when rapid action is required. requiring rapid action. - Products subject to an alert notification The report includes the relation between the - Any rejection related to a direct or indirect have been withdrawn or are in the process 2017 imports of the RASFF member states risk to human health, of a batch, container of being withdrawn from the market. from the notified countries and its total or cargo of food or feed by a competent Member States have their own notifications. authority at a border post within the mechanisms to carry out such actions, European Union. including the provision of detailed 2 2019 EU-RASFF INC - International Nut and Dried Fruit Council information through the media if Information is also provided to third countries 2018 (37 vs 57), whereas in the case of dried necessary. when a food or feed has been notified and apricots from Turkey, the number of - Alerts are triggered by the member of the shipped to them. notifications is more than three time less (34 network that detects the problem and has vs 8). initiated the relevant measures, such as 5. Abstract withdrawal/recall. The notification aims at All notifications are collected in the Appendix giving all the members of the network the In 2019, the European Union’s Rapid Alert (Page 92). information to verify whether the System for Food and Feed (RASFF) issued a concerned product is on their market, so total of 570 notifications including edible nuts that they can take the necessary (410 not.), dried fruits (133 not.) and peanuts measures. for feed (27 not.). This result means a decrease of 8.8% compared with 2018, when Information Notifications a total of 625 notifications were registered. - An information notification concerns a food or a feed on the market of the notifying The most notified edible nuts were peanuts, country for which a risk has been identified with 219 notifications, followed by pistachios - that does not require rapid action, because (66 not.) and almonds (40 not.). As in previous the product has not reached the market or years, the main reason for notifying edible is no longer on their market. nuts were the presence of aflatoxins (80%). - Products subject to an information By country of origin, the most frequently notification have not reached the market or notified edible nuts were peanuts from all necessary measures have already Argentina (17%), peanuts from USA (12%) been taken or are in process of being and peanuts from China and Egypt (8%). taken. Compared with last year, the notifications for peanuts from USA increased significantly (13 Border Rejections vs 48 not.), whereas the notifications for - A border rejection notification concerns a pistachios from USA and pistachios from Iran food or a feed that was refused entry into decreased by more than half (18 vs 43 not. & the Community and was rejected at their 14 vs 32 not., respectively). external borders for reason of a health risk. As for dried fruits, dried figs (60 not.), dried The notifications are accompanied by a grapes (50 not.) and dried apricots (13 not.) detailed explanation of the reasons for the were the most notified. Aflatoxin was main action taken by the Member State in which the reasons for notifying (53 not.), followed by notification was issued. Ochratoxin A (47 not.) and sulphites (17 not.). Dried figs, dried apricots and dried grapes Notifications are immediately transmitted by from Turkey were the most notified, the Commission to the members. Border representing 43%, 21% and 6%, respectively, rejections are transmitted to all