⚠ LIVE — European Consumer Safety Watch 💊 Medicines: 33 in last 7 days 🍎 Food: 79 in last 7 days 🧸 Products: 98 in last 7 days 🟢 Monitoring: EMA · RASFF · NVWA · FAGG · FAVV · EFSA · Safety Gate ⏱ Last fetch: 5 hours ago ⚠ LIVE — European Consumer Safety Watch 💊 Medicines: 33 in last 7 days 🍎 Food: 79 in last 7 days 🧸 Products: 98 in last 7 days 🟢 Monitoring: EMA · RASFF · NVWA · FAGG · FAVV · EFSA · Safety Gate ⏱ Last fetch: 5 hours ago
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Heavy metals

Across channels: 🍎 Food · 1,265
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Serious risk 🇪🇸 resolved

Cadmio en chocolate de Colombia // Cadmiun in chocolate from Colombia

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: cocoa and cocoa preparations, coffee and tea · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy me…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

Cadmium in avocado from Peru

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

Stwierdzenie migracji ołowiu i kadmu z obszaru obrzeża kubka szklanego z dekoracją/// Detection of lead and cadmium migration from the rim area of ​​a printed glass cup

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Potential risk · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: cadmium migration - {heavy metals} **…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 🇩🇰 resolved

cadmium in canned tuna, from Ecuador

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Ecuador · Notifier: Netherlan…
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Low risk 🇵🇱 resolved

przekroczenie ołowiu w połówkach brzoskwiń w lekkim syropie // lead excess in peach halves in light syrup

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Potential risk · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: lead - {heavy metals} · Origin: Bulgar…
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Medium risk 🇱🇺 resolved

Increased release of iron from a Fish roaster from Germany

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: iron - {heavy metals} · Origin: Germany · Notifier: Lux…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 🇧🇬 🇵🇱 resolved

Increased lead content in frozen pheasant breast without skin and bones from the Czech Republic

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: poultry meat and poultry meat products · Hazard: lead high content - {heavy metals} · Origin: Cze…
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 resolved

detection of arsenic and lead in dried parsley

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: arsenic - {heavy metals} *** lead - {heavy metals} · Origin: Belgium ·…
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 resolved

Detection of lead and arsenic in marjoram leaf origin Belgium

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: arsenic - {heavy metals} *** lead - {heavy metals} · Origin: Belgium ·…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

Cadmium in Avocados from Peru

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 level of mercury in defrosted marinated swordfish (Xiphias gladius) 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

Presenza di mercurio oltre i limiti di legge in tonno a pinne gialle origine Spagna/Presence of mercury beyond legal limits in chilled yellowfin tuna (Tunnus albacares) loin 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

positività al mercurio in pesce spada congelato/Mercury above legal limit in frozen swordfish (Xiphias gladius) 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

Cadmium in complementary feed for fattening pigs

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: compound feeds · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Croat…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

lead in cinnamon from the Netherlands, with raw material from Madagascar and from Sri Lanka

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: lead - {heavy metals} · Origin: Madagascar · Notif…
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Serious risk 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 resolved

Mercurio por encima de los límites legales en rodajas de pez espada procedente de España /// Mercury above legal limits in swordfish slices from Spain

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

lead poisoning caused by the use of a ceramic carafe

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: lead high content - {heavy metals} · Origin: Greece · Notifier:…
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Medium risk 🇫🇷 resolved

avocados — avocat hass calibre 20 origine pérou cat 1

Avocados — Hass avocados, size 20, origin Peru, category 1. Type: food. Category: fruits and vegetables. Hazard: metal trace elements (heavy metals: lead, mercu…
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 resolved

lead in sheep livers

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: meat and meat products (other than poultry) · Hazard: lead high content - {he…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

High levels of lead and arsenic in food supplements from the Netherlands

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods · Hazard: arsenic - {heavy metal…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

Exceedance of lead in feed material from Germany

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: feed materials · Hazard: lead high content - {heavy metals} · Origin: Germany · Notifier: Netherl…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 🇧🇪 resolved

Cadmium in psyllium husks from Germany, with raw material from Canada, via Belgium

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Not serious · Category: cereals and bakery products · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin:…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Migration of aluminum and cadmium from pressure cookers in from Afghanistan, via the Netherlands

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: aluminium increasing migration - {migration} *** cadmium migrati…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Exceeding the maximum mercury level in marlin fillets (Makaira indica) from Spain

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: mercury - {heavy metals} · Origin: Spain · Notifier: Germany
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Serious risk 🇵🇱 🇧🇪 🇪🇪 🇩🇪 🇮🇪 resolved

Przekroczenie najwyzszego dopuszczalnego poziomu kadmu w mielonym ostropeście plamistym // Exceeding the MRL for cadmium in ground milk thistle

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Not serious · Category: nuts, nut products and seeds · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin:…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇦🇹 🇫🇷 🇷🇴 🇸🇰 resolved

Mercury in salted swordfish loins

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

Increased copper content in calf's liver from the Netherlands

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: Potential risk · Category: meat and meat products (other than poultry) · Hazard: copper migration - {heavy m…
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Medium risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Excess of cadmium in beetroot product with horseradish from Poland

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: No risk · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Poland · Notifier: Ge…
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Serious risk 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 resolved

High level of Mercury in thawed marinated swordfish 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 🇳🇱 UKRAINE resolved

Cadmium in avocado from Peru

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Peru · Not…
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Serious risk 🇭🇷 resolved

Cadmium in black truffles from Iraq

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Potentially serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Iraq ·…
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Serious risk 🇳🇱 resolved

cadmium in avocado from Peru

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium migration - {heavy metals} · Origin:…
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 resolved

High lead content in fish oil

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Not serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: lead high content - {heavy metals} · Ori…
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Serious risk 🇫🇮 resolved

Cadmium in mung beans from Venezuela via Turkiye

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: Venezuela · Notifie…
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 resolved

Cadmium detected in organic wholemeal Khorasan flour

Classification: Alert notification · Risk: Serious · Category: cereals and bakery products · Hazard: cadmium - {heavy metals} · Origin: France · Notifier: Franc…
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Serious risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Lead and mercury in ground cinnamon from Vietnam

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: herbs and spices · Hazard: lead high content - {heavy metals} *** mercury - {…
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Serious risk 🇫🇮 resolved

Tin in canned peach strips from China

Classification: Border rejection notification · Risk: Serious · Category: fruits and vegetables · Hazard: heavy metals - {heavy metals} · Origin: China · Notifi…
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Medium risk 🇩🇪 resolved

Increased copper levels in calf liver from the Netherlands

Classification: Non-compliance notification · Risk: Potential risk · Category: meat and meat products (other than poultry) · Hazard: copper migration - {heavy m…
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Low risk 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 🇫🇮 resolved

Peeling coating and iron migration in a muffin tin from China

Classification: Information notification for follow-up · Risk: Potential risk · Category: food contact materials · Hazard: iron migration - {heavy metals} · Ori…
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Serious risk 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇫🇮 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 resolved

High lead content in fish from Norway

Classification: Information notification for attention · Risk: Serious · Category: fish and fish products · Hazard: lead - {heavy metals} · Origin: Norway · Not…
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