⚠ Hazard
Heavy metals
Across channels:
🍎 Food · 1,265
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Cadmium in frozen whole Indo-Pacific squid
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: cephalopods and products thereof · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: India · Notifier: I…
3 years ago
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Cadmio por encima del LMR en aguacates de República Dominicana // Cadmiun above the limit in avocados from Dominican Republic
Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Dominican Republic…
3 years ago
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UNITED KINGDOM (NORTHERN
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cadmium in white sesame seeds from Bolivia
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: nuts, nut products and seeds · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Bolivia · Notifier: Net…
3 years ago
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MERCURIO IN DENTEX DENTEX/Mercury in chilled breams (Dentex dentex) from Tunisia
Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Tunisia ·…
3 years ago
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Too high content of mercury in food supplements from United States via Chile
Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Undecided · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: mercury - {h…
3 years ago
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Increased release of heavy metals in drinking vessel from China
Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Not serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: iron - {heavy metals} *** nickel migrati…
3 years ago
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Mercury in chilled breams (Dentex dentex) from Tunisia
Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Tunisia ·…
3 years ago
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Lead, phtalates and photoinitiator in a pizza box
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: 1-hydroxy-cyclohexyl phenyl ketone migration - {migration} *** l…
3 years ago
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Cadmio por encima de los límites permitidos en pimientos precocinados congelados de Perú // Cadmium above permitted limits in frozen pre-cooked peppers from Peru
Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Peru · Notifier: Sp…
3 years ago
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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
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Mercury in caella (prionace glauca) from Spain
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Spain · Notifier: Spain
3 years ago
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Mercurio in pesce spada confezionato /mercury above legal limit in chilled swordfish from Spain
Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Spain · N…
3 years ago
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High content of cadmium in fresh carrots
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Poland · Notifier: Slovakia
3 years ago
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Exceedance of maximum limits for lead in cardamom
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: lead high content - {heavy metals} · Origin: Germany *** U…
3 years ago
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CHINA
MEXICO
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Mercury in food supplement from China
Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Undecided · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: mercury - {h…
3 years ago
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Mercury level
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Spain · Notifier: Portugal
3 years ago
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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
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Mercury in tuna loins from Ecuador
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Ecuador · Notifier: Portugal
3 years ago
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migration of nickel (0.2 mg/kg - ppm) from oven grills from Türkiye
Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: nickel migration - {heavy metals} · Origin: Türkiye ·…
3 years ago
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Cadmium in rawit pepper from Morocco
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Morocco · Notifier: Netherland…
3 years ago
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Migrazione specifica di nichel da griglie presenti in forni ad incasso dalla turchia//Specific migration of nickel from grates found in built-in ovens from Turkey
Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: nickel migration - {heavy metals} · Origin: Türkiye ·…
3 years ago
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Cadmium in bio organic potatoes
Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium migration - {heavy metals} · Origin: Bosnia an…
3 years ago
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cadmium in horse meat from Romania
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: meat and meat products (other than poultry) · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Romania…
3 years ago
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Presence of cadmium on mussels
Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: bivalve molluscs and products thereof · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Or…
3 years ago
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high migration of cadmium and lead in glasses from China
Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: cadmium migration - {heavy metals} *** lead…
3 years ago
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Lead in blackberries from Portugal
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: lead - {heavy metals} · Origin: Portugal · Notifier: Netherlands
3 years ago
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Migration of cobalt, nickel and manganese from baking pan from Hong Kong, via Germany
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: aluminium migration - {composition} *** arsenic migration - {hea…
3 years ago
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migration of cadmium (>0,8 mg/kg - ppm) and of lead (>8,0 mg/kg - ppm) from glass vessels from China, via the Netherlands
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: cadmium migration - {heavy metals} *** lead - {heavy metals} · O…
3 years ago
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Medium risk
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driscoll's — mûre barquette 125g
Driscoll's blackberry 125g container
Hazard: traces of heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium and others) detected. Stop using and consuming. Return to point of…
3 years ago
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Elevated mercury content in creatine from DE; made with raw material from China
Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals}…
3 years ago
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Cadmium in Cepes
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Poland · Notifier: Netherlands
3 years ago
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Lead in complete feed for dogs from the United Kingdom
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: pet food · Hazard: lead - {heavy metals} *** lead high content - {heavy metals} · Origin: United…
3 years ago
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Mercurio por encima del límite permitido en atún congelado procedente México // Mercury above authorised limit in frozen tuna from Mexico
Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Mexico ·…
3 years ago
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Residue of Lead and presence of unauthorized Sudan red I in Turmeric with Bangladeshi origin
Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: Sudan 1 unauthorised colour - {composition} *** lead - {hea…
3 years ago
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Too much tin in canned pineapple juice from Philippines
Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: non-alcoholic beverages · Hazard: tin - {heavy metals} · Notifier: Finland
3 years ago
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High content of lead in supplementary feed for dogs from Germany
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: compound feeds · Hazard: heavy metals - {heavy metals} · Origin: Germany · Notifier: Germany
3 years ago
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Lead in blackberries from Portugal
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: lead high content - {heavy metals} · Origin: Portugal · Notifier:…
3 years ago
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Migration of Pb 22.3 mg/L, 18.0 mg/L, 14.4 mg/L from ceramic bowles from Uzbekistan
Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: lead migration - {migration} · Origin: Uzbek…
3 years ago
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HONG KONG
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Cadmium in small octopus from Italy
Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Italy · Notifier: Germany
3 years ago
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Riscontro di valori superiori ai limiti di legge per cadmio in funghi freschi epigei spontanei dalla Romania/ Detection of values higher than the legal limits for cadmium in spontaneous fresh mushrooms from Romania
Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Romania ·…
3 years ago
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Cadmiun and lead in okra from Jordan
Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} *** lead high conten…
3 years ago
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Other hazards
Pathogen / microbiological
(12,013)
Pesticide residues
(8,959)
Mycotoxins
(3,644)
Injury / mechanical
(2,632)
Labelling issues
(2,588)
Electric shock
(1,993)
Fire / burns
(1,816)
Environmental
(1,289)
Chemical risk
(1,242)
Industrial contaminants
(1,135)
Natural toxins
(1,079)
Strangulation / suffocation
(686)
Allergens
(643)
Choking
(342)
Sight damage
(126)
Foreign bodies
(99)
Drowning
(82)
Microbiological
(72)
Hearing damage
(60)
Other
(15)