⚠ 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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Heavy metals

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Serious risk 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 resolved

Mercury above the legal limit in frozen shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) from Spain / Mercurio por encima del límite legal en marrajo (Isurus oxyrinchus) congelado procedente de España

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

Detección de cadmio y de benzo(a)pireno por encima de los límites normativos en cacao en polvo procedente de Italia // Detection of cadmium and benzo(a)pyrene above regulatory limits in cocoa powder from Italy

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: cocoa and cocoa preparations, coffee and tea · Hazard: benzo(a)pyrene - {environmental pollutants…
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Serious risk 🇧🇪 resolved

Cadmium in frozen red chili peppers from India

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin…
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Serious risk 🇵🇹 resolved

High content of lead

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: meat and meat products (other than poultry) · Hazard: lead high content - {heavy metals} · Origin…
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Serious risk 🇭🇺 resolved

High cadmium level in rice from Italy

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: cereals and bakery products · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Hungary *** Italy · Noti…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 🇧🇪 resolved

Increased levels of lead and hydrocyanic acid in cassava flour from Cameroon

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: other food product / mixed · Hazard: cyanide too high content - {biological contaminants} *** lea…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇸 SURINAME resolved

Mercury in supplement from India

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin:…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇭🇷 🇫🇷 🇵🇹 resolved

mercury over the limit in defrozen tuna loins from Ecuador, via Spain

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Ecuador ·…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 🇵🇱 🇸🇰 resolved

Elevated cadmium content in breakfast plates from France

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: cadmium migration - {heavy metals} · Origin: France · Notifier:…
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Serious risk 🇧🇪 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 resolved

mercury in mixture of amino acids

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

Plomo en sepiolita por encima de niveles permitidos // Lead higher than maximum admitted in Sepiolite

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Not serious · Category: feed additives · Hazard: lead - {heavy metals} · Origin: Spain · Notifier…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

High amount of arsenic in green-lipped mussel, from New Zealand.

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: bivalve molluscs and products thereof · Hazard: arsenic - {heavy metals} · Or…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 resolved

Mercury in fish - Lophius Budegassa

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Tunisia ·…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇭🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 resolved

presenza Mercurio oltre i limiti in Filoni Pesce Spada refrigerati

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Spain · N…
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Medium risk 🇱🇺 🇧🇪 🇨🇾 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 resolved

Cadmium in cocoa powder

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: cocoa and cocoa preparations, coffee and tea · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin…
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Medium risk 🇮🇹 resolved

increase lead level in hunted deer meat from Spain

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: Potential risk · Category: meat and meat products (other than poultry) · Hazard: lead - {heavy metals} · Ori…
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Medium risk 🇵🇹 resolved

Tuna from Senegal with mercury content higher than permissible

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Potential risk · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Senegal · N…
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 resolved

Lead, phtalates and photoinitiators in pizza boxes from Italy

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: 1-hydroxy-cyclohexyl phenyl ketone migration - {migration} *** l…
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Low risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Migration of lead and nickel from stainless steel drinking bottle from Italy

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Potential risk · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: lead migration - {migration} *** nick…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇨🇾 🇮🇪 🇱🇹 resolved

Cadmium in spring onion from Germany

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Germany *** Netherlands · Noti…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇭🇷 resolved

Valori di migrazione specifica di Cromo e Nichel oltre i limiti e corrosione post test in Cucchiai di acciaio inox con manico antiscivolo in Polipropilene origine Cina//Specific migration values of Chromium and Nickel beyond the limits and post test

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: chromium migration - {heavy metals} *** nickel migra…
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 resolved

Lead, phtalates and photoiniators in pizza boxes from Italy

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: 1-hydroxy-cyclohexyl phenyl ketone migration - {migration} *** l…
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Serious risk 🇸🇮 PAKISTAN 🇪🇸 resolved

Exceedance of the maximum level for arsenic in feed additive

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: feed additives · Hazard: arsenic - {heavy metals} · Notifier: Slo…
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Medium risk 🇧🇪 🇳🇱 resolved

too high concent of arsenic in food supplement

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: arsenic - {heavy metals}…
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Serious risk 🇪🇸 MOROCCO resolved

migration of arsenic, lithium and manganese in earthenware pans from Spain

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: arsenic - {heavy metals} *** lithium migrati…
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Serious risk 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 resolved

Cadmium in frozen red pepper dices, manufactured in Poland

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Poland · Notifier: Belgium
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

High lead and arsenic in calcium carbonate from Germany

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: feed materials · Hazard: arsenic - {heavy metals} *** lead - {heavy metals} · Origin: Germany · N…
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Low risk 🇮🇹 🇦🇹 🇭🇷 🇫🇷 🇲🇹 resolved

Manganese (0.37 ppm) superiore ai limiti in colino di acciaio dalla Cina//Manganese (0.37 ppm) above limits in steel sieve from China

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Potential risk · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: manganese migration - {heavy metals}…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇲🇹 resolved

presence of cadmium beyond legal limits in n Carnaroli rice from Italy

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: cereals and bakery products · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Italy · Notifier: Italy
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Serious risk 🇸🇰 resolved

Cadmium and lead migration from a decorated Cappuccino glass

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: cadmium migration - {heavy metal…
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Serious risk 🇵🇱 🇧🇬 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇻 resolved

przekroczenie NDP rtęci w suplemencie diety pochodzącym z Polski/// exceeding the MRL for mercury in a food supplement from Poland

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Not serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: mercury -…
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Serious risk 🇵🇱 🇨🇿 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇳🇴 resolved

mercury in creatine from Poland

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Not serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: mercury -…
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Serious risk 🇵🇱 🇦🇹 🇭🇷 🇨🇿 🇩🇪 resolved

przekroczenie NDP rtęci w suplemencie diety z Polski/// exceeding the MRL for mercury in a food supplement from Poland

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Not serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: mercury -…
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Serious risk 🇵🇹 🇨🇾 🇫🇷 🇭🇺 🇮🇹 resolved

mercury (1.9 mg/kg - ppm) in thawed vacuum-packed yellowfin tuna loins (Thunnus albacares) from Spain

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Spain · N…
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Serious risk 🇨🇿 resolved

High content of lead in savoy salami with wild boar meat from France

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: meat and meat products (other than poultry) · Hazard: lead - {heavy metals} · Origin: France · No…
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Serious risk 🇷🇴 🇦🇹 🇧🇬 🇨🇾 🇩🇰 resolved

Exceeding the MRL Mercury in the Ginko Biloba product, origin China.via Olanda///Depasire LMA Mercur in produsul Ginko Biloba, origine China, via Olanda

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

Increased copper content in chia seeds from Tanzania, via Austria

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: nuts, nut products and seeds · Hazard: copper migration - {heavy metals} · Origin: Tanza…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 resolved

Presence above limits of heavy metals in thawed vacuum-packed yellowfin tuna/Presenza oltre i limiti consentiti di metalli pesanti in tonno pinne gia

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Spain · N…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇦🇹 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 resolved

Camium in frozen Octopus from India

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

longe d'espadon — longe d'espadon

Do not eat, use or keep the swordfish steak. It contains too much mercury (2.9 mg/kg, limit 1 mg/kg). High mercury levels can build up in the body if eaten ofte…
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