What are the most common safety problems with processed foods?

9040 EU alerts have been issued for this category to date. Common reasons: chemical risks, mechanical defects, choking parts, electrical issues, mislabelling.

How can I check if a processed foods product is recalled?

Search by brand or product name on this page, or browse the chronological list below. Newest alerts are at the top.

Where does this processed foods recall data come from?

Directly from EU Safety Gate, EU RASFF, EMA, and national authorities (BASG, DGCCRF, NVWA, etc.). We re-fetch continuously throughout the day.

Processed foods — EU Safety Watch

Medium risk 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Labelling issues

Labelling deficiencies in food supplement from Belgium

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: labelling incorrect - {la…

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Medium risk 🇨🇾 resolved

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HMF content above the legal limits in honey from Greece

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: honey and royal jelly · Hazard: hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) too high content - {composit…

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Serious risk 🇵🇱 ANDORRA 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Pesticide residues

unauthorised substance ethylene oxide (sum of 2-CE and EO expressed as EO: 39 mg/kg - ppm mg/kg - ppm) in food supplements from Poland

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: ethylene oxide - {pesticide residu…

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Medium risk 🇨🇾 🇬🇷 resolved

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Detection of isoglucose or other syrop high in C-4 sugars in honey from Greece and HMF content above the legal limits

Classification: Fraud notification · Risk: No risk · Category: honey and royal jelly · Hazard: adulteration suspicion - {adulteration / fraud} *** hydroxymethyl…

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Serious risk 🇫🇷 🇱🇺 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Heavy metals

mercury in a recovery drink from France

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin:…

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Medium risk 🇪🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Adulterated honey

Classification: Fraud notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: honey and royal jelly · Origin: Latvia · Notifier: Estonia

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Serious risk 🇪🇸 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Presence of tadalafil in food supplement from Portugal

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: tadalafil unauthorised substance -…

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Serious risk 🇷🇴 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Food supplement - Unauthorised substance yohimbine - united.states

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Notifier: Romania

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Low risk 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Unsafe ingredient Withania somnifera in food supplement

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Undecided · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Origin: United Kingd…

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Medium risk 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Misleading for meal replacements for a weight-controlling diet

Classification: Fraud notification · Risk: No risk · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Origin: Netherlands · Notifier: Germany

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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Non-declared allergen Celery in vegetable mix from Austria

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: prepared dishes and snacks · Origin: Austria · Notifier: Germany

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Medium risk 🇸🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Pfizer Aps use of health claim in food supplement

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Origin: Denmark · Notifier: Swede…

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Medium risk 🇪🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Adulterated honey

Classification: Fraud notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: honey and royal jelly · Origin: Hungary · Notifier: Estonia

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Serious risk 🇮🇹 resolved

📂 Processed foods

perilla frutescens non autorizzata in prugne marinate e condimenti vegetali per sushi provenienti dal Giappone//perilla frutescens not allowed in marinated plums and vegetable condiments for sushi from Japan

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Not serious · Category: soups, broths, sauces and condiments · Origin: Japan · Notifier: Italy

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Serious risk 🇭🇷 🇦🇹 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇬🇷 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Pesticide residues

unauthorised substance ethylene oxide (sum of 2-CE and EO expressed as EO: 0.47-0.51 mg/kg - ppm) in food supplements from France

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: ethylene oxide - {pesticide residu…

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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Labelling deficiencies in seasoning mix for noodle soup with pork flavour from the NL

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: Not serious · Category: prepared dishes and snacks · Origin: Netherlands · Notifier: Germany

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Serious risk 🇩🇪 VIETNAM resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Pesticide residues

2-Chloroethanol in food supplement from Germany

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: 2-chloroethano…

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Medium risk 🇵🇹 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Nonauthorized ingredient dragon"s blood - Croton lechleri.

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Origin: Ecuador · Notifier: P…

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Low risk 🇩🇰 resolved

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Food supplements with garcinia cambogia from the UK

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Undecided · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Origin: United Kingd…

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Serious risk 🇩🇪 🇱🇺 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Natural toxins

THC in food supplement from Germany

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: tetrahydrocanabinol (THC) - {biolo…

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Serious risk 🇵🇱 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Pesticide residues

Ethylene oxide (0,078 ± 0,039 mg/kg) in instant noodle soup from Ukraine

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: soups, broths, sauces and condiments · Hazard: 2-chloroethanol - {pesticide residues}…

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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

📂 Processed foods

foreign bodies (pieces of plastic) in baby food from Czech Republik

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Origin: Czechia · Notifier: Netherlands

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Medium risk 🇩🇪 resolved

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Labelling deficiencies in chips from the Czech Republic

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: prepared dishes and snacks · Origin: Czechia · Notifier: Germany

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Medium risk 🇦🇹 resolved

📂 Processed foods

dietary supplement - Internet sales with disease-related information

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Origin: Germany · Notifier: Austr…

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Medium risk 🇧🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Piece of glass in food supplement

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Origin: Netherlands · Notifier: B…

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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇫🇮 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Allergens

Allergen soya is undeclared on various types of noodles from the Philippines

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: prepared dishes and snacks · Hazard: soya undeclared - {allergens} · Origin: Philippines · Notifi…

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Serious risk 🇨🇭 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Pesticide residues

unauthorised substance ethylene oxide in food supplement with Moringa powder

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: ethylene oxide - {pesticide resi…

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Medium risk 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Labelling deficiencies in organic hemp oil from Austria

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: fats and oils · Origin: Austria · Notifier: Germany

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Serious risk 🇨🇭 🇦🇹 🇩🇪 🇭🇺 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Natural toxins

Too high content of THC and Novel Food in CBD oildrops 18%

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: cannabidiol (CBD) unauthorised nov…

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Serious risk 🇧🇪 🇳🇱 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Too high content of vitamins in 2 food supplements from the Netherlands

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Origin: Netherlands · Notifier: Belgium

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Serious risk 🇪🇸 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Pesticide residues

Óxido de etileno especias India // Ethylene Oxide Spice India

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: soups, broths, sauces and condiments · Hazard: ethylene oxide - {pesticide residues} ·…

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Serious risk 🇦🇹 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Pathogen / microbiological

coagulase-positive Staphylococcus (2300 CFU/g), too high count of aerobic mesophiles (210000000 CFU/g) and high counts of Enterobacteriaceae (18000000 CFU/g) and of Escherichia coli (5100 CFU/g) in chilled noodles with eggs from Slovakia

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Not serious · Category: prepared dishes and snacks · Hazard: Enterobacteriaceae too high count -…

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Medium risk 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Labelling issues

Horseradish instead of wasabi in a ready-made snack from the NL

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: prepared dishes and snacks · Hazard: labelling incorrect - {labelling absent/incomplete/…

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Medium risk 🇧🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Non-authorized health and nutrition claims on Hipp infant formula

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Origin: Germany · Notifier: Belgi…

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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Labelling deficiencies in vinegar seasoning from France

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: Not serious · Category: food additives and flavourings · Origin: France · Notifier: Germany

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Low risk 🇩🇰 resolved

📂 Processed foods

CBD products traded online

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Undecided · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Origin: Spain · Noti…

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Serious risk 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇩🇪 🇱🇺 🇳🇴 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Pesticide residues

Ethylene oxide in calcium carbonate used in food supplements

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: food additives and flavourings · Hazard: ethylene oxide - {pesticide residues} · Origin: United K…

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Serious risk 🇩🇪 BELARUS 🇭🇷 🇨🇿 🇳🇱 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Allergens

Peanut not labeled in protein bar from Germany

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: peanut traces - {allergens} · Orig…

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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 resolved

📂 Processed foods ⚠ Pathogen / microbiological

shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli (stx1+, stx2 + /25g) in tuna salad from the Netherlands

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: prepared dishes and snacks · Hazard: Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing -…

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Serious risk 🇧🇪 🇱🇺 🇳🇱 resolved

📂 Processed foods

Possible insufficient cooking of the bolognese sauce in lasagna

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: prepared dishes and snacks · Origin: Belgium · Notifier: Belgium

4 years ago See more →

Processed foods

Labelling deficiencies in food supplement from Belgium

HMF content above the legal limits in honey from Greece

unauthorised substance ethylene oxide (sum of 2-CE and EO expressed as EO: 39 mg/kg - ppm mg/kg - ppm) in food supplements from Poland

Detection of isoglucose or other syrop high in C-4 sugars in honey from Greece and HMF content above the legal limits

mercury in a recovery drink from France

Adulterated honey

Presence of tadalafil in food supplement from Portugal

Food supplement - Unauthorised substance yohimbine - united.states

Unsafe ingredient Withania somnifera in food supplement

Misleading for meal replacements for a weight-controlling diet

Non-declared allergen Celery in vegetable mix from Austria

Pfizer Aps use of health claim in food supplement

Adulterated honey

perilla frutescens non autorizzata in prugne marinate e condimenti vegetali per sushi provenienti dal Giappone//perilla frutescens not allowed in marinated plums and vegetable condiments for sushi from Japan

unauthorised substance ethylene oxide (sum of 2-CE and EO expressed as EO: 0.47-0.51 mg/kg - ppm) in food supplements from France

Labelling deficiencies in seasoning mix for noodle soup with pork flavour from the NL

2-Chloroethanol in food supplement from Germany

Nonauthorized ingredient dragon"s blood - Croton lechleri.

Food supplements with garcinia cambogia from the UK

THC in food supplement from Germany

Ethylene oxide (0,078 ± 0,039 mg/kg) in instant noodle soup from Ukraine

foreign bodies (pieces of plastic) in baby food from Czech Republik

Labelling deficiencies in chips from the Czech Republic

dietary supplement - Internet sales with disease-related information

Piece of glass in food supplement

Allergen soya is undeclared on various types of noodles from the Philippines

unauthorised substance ethylene oxide in food supplement with Moringa powder

Labelling deficiencies in organic hemp oil from Austria

Too high content of THC and Novel Food in CBD oildrops 18%

Too high content of vitamins in 2 food supplements from the Netherlands

Óxido de etileno especias India // Ethylene Oxide Spice India

coagulase-positive Staphylococcus (2300 CFU/g), too high count of aerobic mesophiles (210000000 CFU/g) and high counts of Enterobacteriaceae (18000000 CFU/g) and of Escherichia coli (5100 CFU/g) in chilled noodles with eggs from Slovakia

Horseradish instead of wasabi in a ready-made snack from the NL

Non-authorized health and nutrition claims on Hipp infant formula

Labelling deficiencies in vinegar seasoning from France

CBD products traded online

Ethylene oxide in calcium carbonate used in food supplements

Peanut not labeled in protein bar from Germany

shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli (stx1+, stx2 + /25g) in tuna salad from the Netherlands

Possible insufficient cooking of the bolognese sauce in lasagna

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