⚠ LIVE — European Consumer Safety Watch 💊 Medicines: 33 in last 7 days 🍎 Food: 1 in last 7 days 🧸 Products: 0 in last 7 days 🟢 Monitoring: EMA · RASFF · NVWA · FAGG · FAVV · EFSA · Safety Gate ⏱ Last fetch: 2 hours ago ⚠ LIVE — European Consumer Safety Watch 💊 Medicines: 33 in last 7 days 🍎 Food: 1 in last 7 days 🧸 Products: 0 in last 7 days 🟢 Monitoring: EMA · RASFF · NVWA · FAGG · FAVV · EFSA · Safety Gate ⏱ Last fetch: 2 hours ago
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 resolved

Cadmium in frozen octopus from India, exported to Italy via Albania

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: cephalopods and products thereof · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin:…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 resolved

Cadmium in avocados from Peru

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Peru · Notifier: Netherlands
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Serious risk 🇧🇪 resolved

cadmium in frozen surimi chunks

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Not serious · Category: prepared dishes and snacks · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: P…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Lead-permeability of handmade ceramic graters from Spain

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: lead migration - {migration} · Origin: Spain · Notif…
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Medium risk 🇸🇰 resolved

Suspicion of not labeling the feed additive

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: feed materials · Hazard: iron - {heavy metals} · Origin: Czechia · Notifier: Slovakia
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭 resolved

Migration of lead, cadmium and cobalt from drinking rim of shot glass from China

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: cadmium migration - {heavy metals} *** cobalt migrat…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 MONACO 🇳🇱 🇵🇱 resolved

Mercurio en pez espada (Xhipias gladius) procedente de España//mercury in swordfish

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

migracja ołowiu (Pb) oraz migracja kadmu (Cd) z kubków szklanych termicznych, kraj pochodzenia Chiny /// lead (Pb) migration and cadmium (Cd) migration from thermal glass mugs, from China

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: cadmium migration - {heavy metals} *** lead migration - {migrati…
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mercury beyond the legal limit in frozen swordfish (Xiphias gladius) steaks from Spain

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Potential risk · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Spain · Notifier: Ital…
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Serious risk 🇪🇸 resolved

Cadmio en pipas de EEUU. / Cadmium in sunflowers seeds from USA.

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: nuts, nut products and seeds · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: United State…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 resolved

Global and specific migration (nickel, chromium and manganese) from steel barbecue grills from China

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: chromium migration - {heavy meta…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇦🇹 resolved

Vino spumante contenete piombo oltre il limite consentito / lead beyond the permitted limit in sparkling wine from Italy

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: alcoholic beverages · Hazard: lead - {heavy metals} *** lead high content - {heavy metals} · Orig…
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Medium risk 🇭🇷 resolved

Cadmium in truffles from Iran

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: other food product / mixed · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Iran · Notifier:…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 resolved

Mercurio in Verdesca (Prionace glauca)/mercury in loins of frozen blue shark (Prionace glauca) from Portugal

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Portugal · Notifier: Italy
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Medium risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Increased lead content in infant and toddler food from Austria

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: Potential risk · Category: cereals and bakery products · Hazard: lead high content - {heavy metals} · Origin…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 resolved

Mercurio in tranci di verdesca congelati Mercury in frozen blue shark slices

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Portugal · Notifier: Italy
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇩🇰 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 resolved

exceedance of arsenic in catfish, from Suriname

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: arsenic - {heavy metals} · Origin: Suriname · Notifier: Netherla…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 resolved

Cadmium in frozen squid (Loligo edulis) from Vietnam

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: cephalopods and products thereof · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Vietnam · Notifier:…
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Medium risk 🇫🇷 resolved

lefranc bourgeois enfants — crayons a la cire twistable

Lead, mercury and cadmium have been detected in the red and light blue twistable wax crayons. Stop using them immediately and return the product to the point of…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 resolved

Mercury and Cadmium limits in frozen swordfish loins (Xiphias gladius ) from Spain

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} *** mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin:…
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 resolved

Aluminium and arsenic in ceramic plate from Portugal

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: aluminium migration - {composition} *** arsenic migration - {hea…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 resolved

Mercurio oltre i limiti in pesce smeriglio surgelato (Isurus Oxyrhincus) dal Portogallo//Mercury above limits in frozen porbeagle fish (Isurus Oxyrhincus) from Portugal

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Portugal · Notifier: Italy
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 resolved

Mercury above legal limits in frozen sword fish from Portugal

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Portugal · Notifier: Italy
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 resolved

lead in sheep offal (Ovis aries) from the United Kingdom

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: meat and meat products (other than poultry) · Hazard: lead - {heavy metals} · Origin: United King…
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Serious risk 🇧🇪 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 resolved

Cadmium in mushrooms from Republic of North Macedonia

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Republic of North…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 resolved

Mercury above limits in swordfish loin (Xiphias gladius) from Spain

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

Lead in Kumquats from South Africa

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: lead - {heavy metals} · Origin: South Africa…
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superamento limiti di mercurio in trance di verdesca congelata proveniente dal Portogallo/ High level of mercury in slices of frozen blue shark (Prionace glauca) from Portugal

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Portugal · Notifier: Italy
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Mercurio (0,73 ±0,15 mg/kg) oltre i limiti in Rana pescatrice (Lophius piscatorius) dalla Francia - High level of mercury (0,73 ±0,15 mg/kg)in monkfish Lophius piscatorius from France

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: France ·…
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Low risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Release of lead from granite ice cubes of unknown origin, via Austria

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Potential risk · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: lead - {heavy metals} · Notifier: Ger…
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Serious risk 🇵🇱 resolved

Przekroczenie NDP ołowiu (0,82±0,16 mg/kg) w herbatce ziołowo-owocowej // Exceeding the MRL for lead (0.82±0.16 mg/kg) in herbal and fruit tea

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Not serious · Category: cocoa and cocoa preparations, coffee and tea · Hazard: lead high content…
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Serious risk 🇭🇷 resolved

Cadmium in truffles from Iraq

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Not serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Iraq · Notifier…
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Medium risk 🇫🇷 resolved

absence de marque — mangoustan

Mangosteen without brand marking Hazard: presence of metal traces (heavy metals: lead, mercury, cadmium...) exceeding the maximum cadmium level. Cadmium can ca…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇱🇺 NIGERIA 🇬🇧 resolved

cadmium in frozen raspberries from the Netherlands

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Netherlands · Notifier: Nether…
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Serious risk 🇭🇺 🇱🇹 resolved

Mercury in skimmed milk powder from Ukraine

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: milk and milk products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origi…
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇨🇭 resolved

Detection of cadmium in avocado from Peru, via Spain

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Peru · Notifier: F…
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Serious risk 🇫🇮 resolved

Migration of lead from the lip rim of ceramic mug from China.

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: lead migration - {migration} · Origin: China · Notifi…
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 resolved

Aluminium and arsenic in a ceramic dish from Turkey

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: aluminium migration - {composition} *** arse…
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 resolved

contamination in lead and linuron in Livèche

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: lead high content - {heavy metals} *** linuron - {pesticide residues}…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇦🇹 🇩🇪 🇮🇪 🇵🇱 resolved

Heavy metals and pesticide residues in dried bitter gourd

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} *** lead - {heavy metals} · Origin: Chin…
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