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Herbs & spices

Across channels: 🍎 Food · 2,647
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

Salmonella in black pepper

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Salmonella spp. - {pathogenic micro-organisms} · Origin: Br…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

S. Javiana in black pepper from Brazil

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Salmonella Javiana - {pathogenic micro-organisms} · Origin:…
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Medium risk 🇫🇷 resolved

priya — hyderabadi chicken biryani masala 50g

Do not consume. Return the product to the point of sale. It exceeds permitted pesticide limits and has an elevated ethylene oxide level.
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇳🇴 🇩🇰 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 🇩🇪 resolved

Ethylene oxide in xanthan gum used in dry spices and dry mixes for sauces

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Origin: Denmark *** Norway *** Sweden · Notifier: Norway
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Serious risk 🇱🇻 UZBEKISTAN resolved

Mixture of spices, herbs and additives from Russia

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Sudan 1 unauthorised colour - {composition} · Orig…
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

S. Freetown, S. Rubislaw and S. Minnesota in black pepper from Brazil

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Salmonella Freetown - {pathogenic micro-organisms} *** Salm…
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Serious risk 🇪🇸 resolved

PLAGUICIDAS TÉ DE CHINA

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: pesticide residues - {pesticide residues} · Origin: China ·…
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 resolved

Unauthorised substance ethylene oxide in ginger powder from India

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: ethylene oxide - {pesticide residues} · Origin: India · Notifier: Germ…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 resolved

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (106 µg/kg - ppb) and chrysene (87.5 µg/kg - ppb) in dill tips from Uzbekistan, via Germany

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: chrysene - {industrial contaminants} *** polycyclic aromatic hydrocarb…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇨🇿 🇫🇷 resolved

Chlorpyriphos in fenugreek leaves from India, produced in the United Arab Emirates

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: chlorpyrifos - {pesticide residues} *** kresoxim-methyl - {pesticide r…
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Medium risk 🇫🇷 resolved

jardin veda — lait dore epice bio

Jardin Veda — Lait Doré Épice Bio Hazard: presence of a prohibited substance | unauthorized plant protection products | chemical contamination in one ingredien…
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

S. Agona, S. Poona and S. Matadi in black pepper from Brazil

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Salmonella Agona - {pathogenic micro-organisms} *** Salmone…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

Ochratoxin-A in nutmeg from Indonesia

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: ochratoxin A - {mycotoxins} · Origin: Indonesia · Notifier:…
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

Aflatoxins in nutmeg from Indonesia

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

Red hot Chili powders from India without proper official certificate

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Not serious · Category: herbs and spices · Origin: India · Notifier: Latvia
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

S. Javiana and S. Oranienburg in black pepper from Brazil

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Salmonella Javiana - {pathogenic micro-organisms} *** Salmo…
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Serious risk 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 resolved

Unauthorized colour Orange II in chili pepper (powder) from Ghana with destination Germany

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Orange II unauthorised colour - {composition} · Origin: Ghana · Notifi…
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇲🇹 resolved

Chilli from India failing identity check due to label/document mismatch

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Not serious · Category: herbs and spices · Origin: India · Notifier: Malta
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Serious risk 🇧🇪 resolved

unauthorised substance ethylene oxide (0.049 mg/kg - ppm) in hawthorn and turmeric infusion from France

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: ethylene oxide - {pesticide residues} · Origin: France · Notifier: Bel…
4 years ago See more
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Medium risk 🇪🇸 resolved

Plantas secas y trituradas para infusión no autorizadas consumo humano en UE procedentes de Argentina // Unauthorised novel food in dried and crushed plants from Argentina.

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: herbs and spices · Origin: Argentina · Notifier: Spain
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 resolved

salmonella in coriander ground from India

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Salmonella enteritidis - {pathogenic micro-organisms} · Origin: India…
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Serious risk 🇨🇭 resolved

Ochratoxin A in chillies seasoning via Germany

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: ochratoxin A - {mycotoxins} · Origin: Germany · Notifier: Switzerland
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

Aflatoxins in nutmeg from Indonesia

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Aflatoxin B1 - {mycotoxins} *** aflatoxin total - {mycotoxi…
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 AUSTRALIA BELARUS 🇧🇪 BRAZIL resolved

Salmonella spp. in tomato flakes from China, processed in Germany

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Salmonella - {pathogenic micro-organisms} · Origin: Belgium *** China…
4 years ago See more
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Medium risk 🇪🇸 resolved

CARDAMOMO - PLAGUICIDAS - INDIA / CARDAMOM - PESTICIDES - INDIA

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: pesticide residues - {pesticide residues} · Origin: India…
4 years ago See more
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Low risk 🇩🇪 🇨🇿 resolved

Maximum level of chlorpyrifos exceeded in oregano rubbed from Greece

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Undecided · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: chlorpyrifos - {pesticide residues} · Origin: Gr…
4 years ago See more
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Low risk 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 resolved

Chlorpyrifos on parsley from Poland

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Undecided · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: chlorpyrifos - {pesticide residues} · Origin: Po…
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 🇧🇪 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 resolved

Chlorpyrifos in turmeric from India

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: chlorpyrifos - {pesticide residues} · Origin: India · Notifier: Germ…
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

Salmonella in Brazilian black pepper

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Salmonella enteritidis - {pathogenic micro-organisms} · Ori…
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 resolved

presumptive Bacillus cereus in ground ginger from Nigeria

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Bacillus cereus presumptive - {pathogenic micro-organisms} · Origin: N…
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Serious risk 🇩🇰 resolved

Ethylene oxide in organic ginger powder

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Origin: India · Notifier: Denmark
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 ALBANIA 🇦🇹 🇨🇿 🇱🇻 resolved

Foreign body (glass fragment) in coarse sea salt from Spain

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Origin: Spain · Notifier: Germany
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Serious risk 🇫🇮 🇳🇱 resolved

Salmonella Kentucky in fresh mint from Kenya

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Salmonella enteritidis - {pathogenic micro-organis…
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

Benzo(a)pyreen and PAHs in five spice powder

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: benzo(a)pyrene - {environmental pollutants} *** po…
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇧🇪 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 resolved

Undeclared sulphite in cinnamon from Sri Lanka

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: sulphite undeclared - {allergens} · Origin: Sri Lanka · Notifier: Belg…
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇧🇪 🇦🇹 🇭🇷 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 resolved

Undeclared sulphite on cinnamon

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: sulphite undeclared - {allergens} · Origin: United Kingdom · Notifier:…
4 years ago See more
Medium risk 🇫🇷 resolved

anne-sophie pic — poivre noir de la côte de malabar anne-sophie pic

Black pepper from the Malabar coast by Anne-Sophie Pic has been found to contain pesticide residues above permitted levels. Do not consume it.
4 years ago See more
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Low risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Chlorpyrifos and prometryn in cumin from Turkey

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Undecided · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: chlorpyrifos - {pesticide residues} *** prometry…
4 years ago See more
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Low risk 🇮🇹 resolved

Ossido Etilene in Polvere di Curry//ethylene oxide in Curry powder

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Undecided · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: ethylene oxide - {pesticide residues} · Origin:…
4 years ago See more
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 ANDORRA AUSTRALIA 🇧🇪 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA resolved

2-Chloroethanol in organic turmeric powder from India, via the Netherlands

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: 2-chloroethanol - {pesticide residues} · Origin: India *** Italy *** N…
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