What are the most common safety problems with fish & seafood?

4137 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 fish & seafood 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 fish & seafood recall data come from?

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Fish & seafood — EU Safety Watch

Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Heavy metals

mercurio oltre i limiti consentiti in pesce spada

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Spain · Notifier: Italy

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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Labelling issues

Labelling deficiencies in sardines in oil from Greece

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: Not serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: labelling insufficient - {labelling absent/incomple…

4 years ago See more →

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Medium risk 🇪🇸 resolved

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Improper health certificate (invalid authority) in frozen tuna from South Africa

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: fish and fish products · Origin: South Africa · Notifier: Spain

4 years ago See more →

Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Pathogen / microbiological

Norovirus (genoma virale GI-GII) in tartufi di mare (Venus verrucosa) dalla Spagna//Norovirus (GI-GII viral genome) in sea truffles (Venus verrucosa) from Portugal,purified in Spain

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: bivalve molluscs and products thereof · Hazard: norovirus - {pathogenic micro-organisms} · Noti…

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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 CURAçAO 🇨🇾 🇩🇰 resolved

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Nitrofurazon in crab

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: crustaceans and products thereof · Hazard: nitrofuran (metabolite) nitrofurazone (SEM) prohibited…

4 years ago See more →

Serious risk 🇮🇹 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Pathogen / microbiological

Norovirus (genoma virale GI - GII) in vongole veraci (ruditapes ph.) dalla Spagna//Norovirus (GI - GII viral genome) in clams (ruditapes ph.) from Spain

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: bivalve molluscs and products thereof · Hazard: norovirus - {pathogenic micro-organisms} · Orig…

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Medium risk 🇪🇸 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Request for information on authorisation of establishments in Portugal

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: fish and fish products · Notifier: Spain

4 years ago See more →

Low risk 🇮🇹 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Pathogen / microbiological

Norovirus in ostriche concave origine Francia/Norovirus in concave oyster from France

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Undecided · Category: bivalve molluscs and products thereof · Hazard: norovirus - {pathogenic mic…

4 years ago See more →

Serious risk 🇨🇭 🇫🇷 🇵🇹 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Heavy metals

Too high content of cadmium in pollicipes pollicipes

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: crustaceans and products thereof · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Spain · Notifier: S…

4 years ago See more →

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Serious risk 🇪🇸 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Poor temperature control in frozen octopus from Morocco

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Not serious · Category: cephalopods and products thereof · Origin: Mauritania · Notifier: Spain

4 years ago See more →

Low risk 🇮🇹 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Pathogen / microbiological

Norovirus in live oysters (Crassostrea gigas) from France

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Undecided · Category: bivalve molluscs and products thereof · Hazard: norovirus - {pathogenic mic…

4 years ago See more →

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Serious risk 🇪🇸 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Anisakis in Zeus faber roe from Morocco

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Origin: Morocco · Notifier: Spain

4 years ago See more →

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Medium risk 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Manufacturer not approved for EU import at the time of production and signing of health certificate

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: bivalve molluscs and products thereof · Origin: United States · Notifier: Germany

4 years ago See more →

Low risk 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Pathogen / microbiological

Norovirus in ostriche concave origine Francia//Norovirus in concave oysters from France

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Undecided · Category: bivalve molluscs and products thereof · Hazard: norovirus - {pathogenic mic…

4 years ago See more →

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Serious risk 🇫🇷 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Presence of anisakis on saithe fillets (Pollachius Virens)

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Not serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: Anisakis simplex parasitic infestation w…

4 years ago See more →

Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Heavy metals

Cadmium in frozen squids from United States

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: cephalopods and products thereof · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Spain *** United St…

4 years ago See more →

Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Pathogen / microbiological

Listeria monocytogenes in cooked mussel meat

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: crustaceans and products thereof · Hazard: Listeria monocytogenes - {pathogenic micro-organisms}…

4 years ago See more →

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Medium risk 🇨🇿 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Foreign object in tuna salad

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: fish and fish products · Origin: Germany · Notifier: Czechia

4 years ago See more →

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Medium risk 🇩🇪 resolved

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Nitrate treatment of tuna (Thunnus albacares)

Classification: Fraud notification · Risk: No risk · Category: fish and fish products · Origin: Vietnam · Notifier: Germany

4 years ago See more →

Low risk 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Pathogen / microbiological

Norovirus in vongole veraci (Ruditapes philippinarum)

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Undecided · Category: bivalve molluscs and products thereof · Hazard: norovirus - {pathogenic mic…

4 years ago See more →

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Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

corpo estraneo (frammento metallico 1 cm circa) in tonno all'olio di oliva//foreign body (metal fragment about 1 cm) in olive oil tuna

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Origin: Türkiye · Notifier: Italy

4 years ago See more →

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Low risk 🇮🇹 🇦🇹 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

prodotti della pesca trasformati (semiconserve) elaborati e confezionati in stabilimento non riconosciuto//processed (semi-preserved) fishery products manufactured and packaged in a non-approved establishment

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Undecided · Category: fish and fish products · Origin: Italy · Notifier: Italy

4 years ago See more →

Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇪🇪 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Heavy metals

Mercury in Red Tuna Steaks from Vietnam

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Vietnam · Notifier: Netherlan…

4 years ago See more →

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Medium risk 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Labeling deficiencies in fish from India via the Netherlands

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: fish and fish products · Origin: India · Notifier: Germany

4 years ago See more →

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Medium risk 🇵🇹 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Lack of mandatory information on the name and number of the producing establishment

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: fish and fish products · Origin: India · Notifier: Portugal

4 years ago See more →

Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Heavy metals

Presence of mercury above legal limits in swordfish from Spain

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Italy *** Spain · Notifier: I…

4 years ago See more →

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Medium risk 🇪🇸 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Poor temperature control in Thunnus albacares from Mexico

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Undecided · Category: fish and fish products · Origin: Mexico · Notifier: Spain

4 years ago See more →

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Medium risk 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Labeling deficiencies in can sadrines from the Philippines via the Netherlands

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: fish and fish products · Origin: Philippines · Notifier: Germany

4 years ago See more →

Serious risk 🇫🇷 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Natural toxins

Histamine on frozen sardine from Portugal

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: histamine - {biological contaminants} · Origin: Portugal · Notif…

4 years ago See more →

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Medium risk 🇨🇿 🇱🇹 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Low meat and protein content in frozen fish meat from Poland, raw material from Norway

Classification: Fraud notification · Risk: No risk · Category: fish and fish products · Origin: Poland · Notifier: Czechia

4 years ago See more →

Medium risk 🇫🇷 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Pathogen / microbiological

Listeria monocytogenes <10ufc/g on smoked salmon from Lithuania

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: Listeria monocytogenes - {pathogenic micro-organisms} ·…

4 years ago See more →

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Serious risk 🇮🇪 UNITED KINGDOM (NORTHERN resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Incorrectly Emphasised Allergen (Crustacean) Labelling on Shrimp and Prawn products, distributed to Northern Ireland

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: crustaceans and products thereof · Origin: Netherlands *** Norway · Notifier: Ireland

4 years ago See more →

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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

malachite green and leucomalachite green in frozen red tilapia from Vietnam

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: malachite green unauthorised substance - {residues of veterinary…

4 years ago See more →

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Serious risk 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Prefried herring fillet, missing information of allergen wheat

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Origin: Sweden · Notifier: Sweden

4 years ago See more →

Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Pathogen / microbiological

food poisoning suspected to be caused by live oysters

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: bivalve molluscs and products thereof · Hazard: norovirus - {pathogenic micro-organisms} · Origin…

4 years ago See more →

Medium risk 🇫🇷 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Pathogen / microbiological

detection of listeria in tarama made in Romania

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: Listeria monocytogenes - {pathogenic micro-organisms} ·…

4 years ago See more →

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Medium risk 🇪🇸 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Sobrepeso (>10%) en pulpo congelado de Mauritania. Overweight (>10%) in frozen octopus from Mauritania.

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: cephalopods and products thereof · Origin: Mauritania · Notifier: Spain

4 years ago See more →

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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇫🇮 🇩🇪 🇸🇪 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

food poisoning probably caused by oysters from France

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: bivalve molluscs and products thereof · Origin: France · Notifier: Netherland…

4 years ago See more →

Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇭🇺 🇸🇮 🇪🇸 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood ⚠ Heavy metals

Filone di tonno a pinne gialle decongelato trasformato (ATM)/mercury in Processed defrosted yellowfin tuna loin from Spain

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Mexico *** Spain · Notifier:…

4 years ago See more →

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Medium risk 🇩🇪 resolved

📂 Fish & seafood

Labelling deficiencies in hot smoked gutted mackerel with head, from the Netherlands

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: fish and fish products · Origin: Netherlands · Notifier: Germany

4 years ago See more →

Fish & seafood

mercurio oltre i limiti consentiti in pesce spada

Labelling deficiencies in sardines in oil from Greece

Improper health certificate (invalid authority) in frozen tuna from South Africa

Norovirus (genoma virale GI-GII) in tartufi di mare (Venus verrucosa) dalla Spagna//Norovirus (GI-GII viral genome) in sea truffles (Venus verrucosa) from Portugal,purified in Spain

Nitrofurazon in crab

Norovirus (genoma virale GI - GII) in vongole veraci (ruditapes ph.) dalla Spagna//Norovirus (GI - GII viral genome) in clams (ruditapes ph.) from Spain

Request for information on authorisation of establishments in Portugal

Norovirus in ostriche concave origine Francia/Norovirus in concave oyster from France

Too high content of cadmium in pollicipes pollicipes

Poor temperature control in frozen octopus from Morocco

Norovirus in live oysters (Crassostrea gigas) from France

Anisakis in Zeus faber roe from Morocco

Manufacturer not approved for EU import at the time of production and signing of health certificate

Norovirus in ostriche concave origine Francia//Norovirus in concave oysters from France

Presence of anisakis on saithe fillets (Pollachius Virens)

Cadmium in frozen squids from United States

Listeria monocytogenes in cooked mussel meat

Foreign object in tuna salad

Nitrate treatment of tuna (Thunnus albacares)

Norovirus in vongole veraci (Ruditapes philippinarum)

corpo estraneo (frammento metallico 1 cm circa) in tonno all'olio di oliva//foreign body (metal fragment about 1 cm) in olive oil tuna

prodotti della pesca trasformati (semiconserve) elaborati e confezionati in stabilimento non riconosciuto//processed (semi-preserved) fishery products manufactured and packaged in a non-approved establishment

Mercury in Red Tuna Steaks from Vietnam

Labeling deficiencies in fish from India via the Netherlands

Lack of mandatory information on the name and number of the producing establishment

Presence of mercury above legal limits in swordfish from Spain

Poor temperature control in Thunnus albacares from Mexico

Labeling deficiencies in can sadrines from the Philippines via the Netherlands

Histamine on frozen sardine from Portugal

Low meat and protein content in frozen fish meat from Poland, raw material from Norway

Listeria monocytogenes <10ufc/g on smoked salmon from Lithuania

Incorrectly Emphasised Allergen (Crustacean) Labelling on Shrimp and Prawn products, distributed to Northern Ireland

malachite green and leucomalachite green in frozen red tilapia from Vietnam

Prefried herring fillet, missing information of allergen wheat

food poisoning suspected to be caused by live oysters

detection of listeria in tarama made in Romania

Sobrepeso (>10%) en pulpo congelado de Mauritania. Overweight (>10%) in frozen octopus from Mauritania.

food poisoning probably caused by oysters from France

Filone di tonno a pinne gialle decongelato trasformato (ATM)/mercury in Processed defrosted yellowfin tuna loin from Spain

Labelling deficiencies in hot smoked gutted mackerel with head, from the Netherlands

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