Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed
Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed : The European Commission runs the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) which was set up in 1992. Individual member states notify the Commission about any food safety issues they have found and the Commission circulates these to all Member States as Rapid Alerts (popularly known as RASFFs, pronounced ras-efs, after the name of the system). RASFFs are circulated when risk assessments show intakes are found at levels above the ARfD or ADI. Because MRLs are trading levels, not safety levels, RASFFs are not issued when residues over the relevant MRLs are found. If the PRC monitoring programme identifies residues where the predicted intakes for one or more of the consumer groups are above the ARfD or ADI, PSD informs the Food Standards Agency which then informs the Commission. Relatively few Rapid Alerts are about pesticide residues in food. Other topics covered include: (1) E coli in meat; (2) the use of unapproved food additives (such as Sudan Red); (3) unacceptable levels of aflatoxins in nuts
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