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Herbs & spices

Medium risk 🇫🇷 resolved

u — poivre noir moulu u format classique 45g

Black ground pepper, classic 45g format, must not be consumed or used. Contact the point of sale or consumer service. Destroy the product.
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Medium risk 🇮🇪 resolved

Multiple pesticide residues in cumin from India

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Potential risk · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Azoxystrobin - {pesticide residues} *** acetamiprid…
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Medium risk 🇩🇰 resolved

Investigation of products in connection with outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium ST19

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: herbs and spices · Notifier: Denmark
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Medium risk 🇮🇪 resolved

Multiple pesticide residues in Cumin from India

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Potential risk · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: acetamiprid - {pesticide residues} *** benomil/carbe…
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Medium risk 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 resolved

Labeling deficiencies on cinnamon powder from Germany

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: herbs and spices · Origin: Germany · Notifier: Germany
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Medium risk 🇫🇷 resolved

columbia et fuchs — duo et poivrières

Columbia and Fuchs duo and pepper mills are recalled due to aflatoxin levels above the regulatory limit. If you have consumed these products and experience head…
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Medium risk 🇧🇪 resolved

Chlorpyrifos, malathion and metalaxyl in turmeric from India

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: chlorpyrifos unauthorised substance - {pesticide residues} **…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 resolved

Salmonella spp. in porcini mushroom powder

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Salmonellen - {pathogenic micro-organisms} · Origin: unknown origin ·…
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Medium risk 🇦🇹 resolved

Non-conforming labelling of mustard

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: labelling incorrect - {labelling absent/incomplete/incorrect}…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇩🇰 resolved

Foreign body (metal wire) in ground black pepper from Vietnam via Turkey

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: fragments metal wire - {foreign bodies} · Origin: Vietnam · Notifier:…
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Serious risk 🇨🇿 resolved

Chlorpyrifos in masala spice from India.

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: chlorpyrifos unauthorised substance -…
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Serious risk 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 resolved

Chlorpyrifos in whole corriander seeds from India

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: chlorpyrifos unauthorised substance - {pesticide r…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in rubbed oregano from Greece

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: pyrrolizidine alkaloids - {natural toxins (other)} · Origin: Greece ·…
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Serious risk 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 resolved

Aflatoxinas en ají para seco procedente de Ecuador// Aflatoxins in ají para seco from Ecuador

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Aflatoxin B1 - {mycotoxins} · Origin: Ecuador · Notifier: Spain
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Medium risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Labelling deficiencies on cinnamon sticks from China, via the Netherlands

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: herbs and spices · Origin: China · Notifier: Germany
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Salmonella spp. in frozen herbs from Belgium

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Salmonella spp. - {pathogenic micro-organisms} · Origin: Belgium · Not…
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Medium risk 🇧🇪 resolved

Sale of Food Products (Vanilla Beans) on Online Marketplace

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: herbs and spices · Origin: Lithuania · Notifier: Belgium
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Serious risk 🇸🇮 🇪🇪 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇹 resolved

Presumptive B. cereus in Ginger from India via The Netherlands

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Bacillus cereus presumptive - {pathoge…
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Serious risk 🇨🇭 🇦🇹 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 🇫🇷 resolved

Undeclared gluten in ground nutmeg from Indonesia, via Poland, via Hungary and via Germany

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: gluten undeclared - {allergens} · Origin: Hungary *** Indo…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 resolved

Lead and mercury in cinnamon powder from China, dispatched from United Kingdom

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: lead high content - {heavy metals} ***…
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Serious risk 🇫🇮 resolved

Salmonella Hvittingfoss in Pandan leaf from Thailand

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Salmonella Hvittingfoss - {pathogenic micro-organisms} · Or…
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Medium risk 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 resolved

Labeling deficiencies for spice from the Netherlands

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: labelling insufficient - {labelling absent/incomplete/incorre…
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Medium risk 🇦🇹 resolved

Non-conforming labelling of beer mustard

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: labelling incorrect - {labelling absent/incomplete/incorrect}…
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Medium risk 🇫🇷 resolved

mets délices — cumin entier pot 150g

Do not consume or use the product. Return it to the point of sale. Contact the point of sale.
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 resolved

MOAH in vanilla bean from Uganda

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH) - {environmental pollutants}…
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Medium risk 🇫🇷 resolved

marubishi — 530401: mugicha thé orge grillé marubishi bio 10gx20p*(20)

The product marubishi — 530401: mugicha grilled barley tea marubishi bio 10gx20p*(20) has been found to contain pesticides above the allowed limits. Stop using…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

MOAH in dried parsley from Egypt

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH) - {enviro…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Unauthorized novel food Nymphaea ampla from the Netherlands

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: novel food ingredient unauthorised - {…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 🇨🇿 resolved

Salmonella spp. in ground organic black pepper from Germany, packaged in the Czech Republic, with raw material from Indonesia, processed in the Netherlands

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Salmonella spp. - {pathogenic micro-organisms} · Origin: Indonesia ***…
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Serious risk 🇩🇰 resolved

high level of pesticides in dried Chili and riceberry from Sweden to Denmark

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: Not serious · Category: herbs and spices · Origin: Thailand · Notifier: Denmark
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 resolved

High levels of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in cumin//Altos niveles de alcaloides pirrolizidínicos en comino procedente de la India a través de España

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: pyrrolizidine alkaloids - {natural toxins (other)} · Origi…
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Low risk 🇵🇱 🇱🇻 resolved

Salmonella Sinstorf in thyme from Egypt

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Potential risk · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Salmonella - {pathogenic micro-organisms} ·…
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Serious risk 🇬🇷 resolved

Unauthorised chlorpyrifos in sesame seeds from India

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: chlorpyrifos unauthorised substance - {pesticid…
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Serious risk 🇦🇹 resolved

Bacillus cereus in lemon verbena from Italy

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Bacillus cereus - {pathogenic micro-or…
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Serious risk 🇨🇭 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 resolved

Maximum content of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in cumin powder has been exceeded

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: pyrrolizidine alkaloids - {natural toxins (other)} · Origin: India · N…
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Low risk 🇮🇪 UNITED KINGDOM (NORTHERN resolved

Recall of dried sage due to choking risk from large pieces of stalks, bark and blue plastic

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Potential risk · Category: herbs and spices · Origin: United Kingdom *** United Kingdom (Northern…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Aflatoxins in spice mix from Ehtiopia

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Aflatoxin B1 - {mycotoxins} *** aflatoxin total - {mycotoxi…
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 resolved

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in dried oregano from Turkiye

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: pyrrolizidine alkaloids - {natural toxins (other)} · Origin…
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Low risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Unauthorized novel food Butea Superba in herbal extract from the Netherlands

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Potential risk · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: novel food ingredient unauthorised - {novel…
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Low risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Unauthorized novel food in black cumin seeds from Pakistan

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Potential risk · Category: herbs and spices · Origin: Pakistan · Notifier: Germany
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