FOOD FRAUD ALERTS Uge 15-2018 Highlights: Highlights concerning Miscellaneous fruit - inedible peel, large A hepatitis A outbreak in Australia has been Hepatitis A outbreak linked to frozen pomegranate arils from Egypt. So far 7 people have been sickened linked to Egyptian pomegranate arils in New South Wales with hepatitis A genotype 1B, with all of them reporting they had eaten the product. Highlights concerning Seafood A RASFF alert has been released from Italy in regard to a scombroid syndrome outbreak Scombroid Syndrome outbreak suspected to be linked to frozen sail- linked to fish from fish from Spain. Spain Highlights concerning Meat and meat products (excluding poultry) An operation carried out by the Food Safety Food fraud uncovered at Spanish meat Service of the General Directorate of Public Health, Ministry of Health and the police in company Spain has uncovered serious food fraud at a meat company which distributed products to restaurants, hotels and schools in Mallorca. Product labels were falsified, products were thawed in hot water and stored without meeting minimum sanitary conditions and some products were having pig blood added to them to increase weight. If products were returned, the affected parts
Side 2 af 7 were removed or cleaned, and the products were then frozen again to be sold on to a different customer. 30,000 kg of meat were found with no identification or traceability marks, and canned products were found which were up to 3 years past their expiry date. Highlights concerning Tree nuts (shelled or unshelled) An audit carried out by the EU has found Issues with US aflatoxin controls for deficiencies in the US system to prevent aflatoxin contamination in pistachios. This pistachios exported follows an increase in the number of cases to EU found in the last few years. A previous audit in 2010 contained 4 recommendations which American authorities committed to addressing, however this recent audit found that there is no official control on pistachios being exported to the EU. The US was one of the largest importers of pistachios to the EU in 2017, with 56,606,000 kg of in shell pistachios and 3,083,00 kg of shelled pistachios having been exported to the EU in 2017. Issues: Issues concerning Almonds including ground almonds Aflatoxins detected in almonds not Issues concerning Apricots - dried 03/Apr/2018 Greece too high content of sulphite Turkey ( 2414± 83 mg/kg - ppm) in dried apricots from Turkey not yet
Side 3 af 7 Issues concerning Carrots 09/Apr/2018 Sweden chlorpyrifos (0.42 mg/kg - Italy ppm) in carrots from Italy not yet Issues concerning Coconut - desiccated, dried, flour 29/Mar/2018 Salmonella may be present Mexico in organic coconut smiles Healthy Nut Factory, Bayside, NY, USA 04/Apr/2018 Salmonella may be present in frozen grated coconut The Philippines Global Commodities Corporation, Hayward, California, USA Issues concerning Dry ingredient mixes (batter, breading, custard, muffin etc.) and dough 04/Apr/2018 Sweden Salmonella may be present in mixed dough Unknown origin Netto Issues concerning Flour (all cereals except maize) 30/Mar/2018 Belgium Salmonella may be present Belgium in multigrain flour with nettle leaves Dossche Mills, Deinze, Belgium Issues concerning Meat - bovine (beef, veal, cow) 27/Mar/2018 Canada E. coli O157:H7 may be present Canada in beef trimmings Jacques Forget Ltée, Terrebonne, QC, Canada
Side 4 af 7 05/Apr/2018 Sweden Salmonella enterica ser. Sweden not yet Dublin (presence /25g) in frozen vealmeat from Denmark 04/Apr/2018 Sweden Salmonella (presence /25g) The Net- not yet in chilled beef from the herlands Netherlands 31/Mar/2018 PFP Enterprises is recalling approximately 7,146 pounds of raw beef products that were produced and packaged without the benefit of federal inspection PFP Enterprises, Fort Worth, Texas Non-attachment of health JBS Solderton, certificate in frozen beef INC, USA Issues concerning Meat - porcine (pork, pig) 03/Apr/2018 Sweden Salmonella may be present Unknown in pork pieces origin Netto Issues concerning Milk products - cheese 05/Apr/2018 France monoethylene glycol (MEG) France in chilled cheese with walnuts from France not yet 29/Mar/2018 Staphylococcus aureus may be present in asadero cheese Mexico Regional Farm, Col. Partido Iglesias, Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico 03/Apr/2018 United Kingdom coagulase-positive Staphylococcus (25000; 200000 CFU/g) in cheese from Poland Poland not yet
Side 5 af 7 09/Apr/2018 Listeria monocytogenes may be present in triple creme cheese Whole Foods Market, Austin, Texas Issues concerning Mustard 05/Apr/2018 United Kingdom Undeclared sulphur dioxide Poland may be present in Rolnik beer mustard Maxela Ltd Issues concerning Other articles 04/Apr/2018 Greece Potential food contact migration from plastic forks at a concentration that exceeds maximum limits not Finland high content of volatile organic constituents (1.6 %) in silicone pancake mould from not yet 05/Apr/2018 Finland volatile organic compounds not yet (1 %) in silicone baby feeder from Issues concerning Other herbal dried leaves 03/Apr/2018 Salmonella may be present in organic brahmi Phalada Agro Research Foundation Pvt. Ltd., 92/5, Kannalli Village, Segehalli Cross,, Magadi Main Rd, Bangalore, IN-KA
Side 6 af 7 Issues concerning Pasta and noodles 06/Apr/2018 Switzerland Undeclared egg may be present Unknown in organic whole grain origin spaghetti Migros, Zurich, Switzerland Issues concerning Peppers (sweet or bell) - fresh or dried Italy spoilage of fresh hot peppers Dominican from the Dominican Republic Republic not yet Issues concerning Rice Generation of mould and Australia nasty smell in milled rice not 06/Apr/2018 Carbendazim may be present in brown crystal rice SRI VAMSHI KRISHNA INDU- STRIES, Vamshi Chambers, D.no:7-1-73, Opp: Goushala Bhavan, Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh 06/Apr/2018 Isoprothiolane and carbendazim may be present in basmati rice Eco Roots Foods, Delhi, 09/Apr/2018 Finland thiamethoxam (0.03 mg/kg not yet - ppm) and unauthorised substance tricyclazole (0.15 mg/kg - ppm) in basmati rice from, via Turkey
Side 7 af 7 Austria chlorpyrifos (0.41 mg/kg - ppm) and unauthorised substance profenofos (0.081 mg/kg - ppm) in basmati rice from, via Germany not yet Generation of mould and not nasty smell in milled rice Issues concerning Spice mixtures/other spices, curry powder 03/Apr/2018 Salmonella may be present in madras curry powder Mahashian Di Hatti Ltd., Kirti Nagar, Industrial Area, New Delhi, In-Dl 03/Apr/2018 Salmonella may be present in madras curry powder Unique Fragrances, (HQ) B- 63, 2nd Floor, Prashat Vihar, New Delhi, Delhi- 110085, INDIA FOOD FRAUD ALERTS Editor Carina Hagmann (CAH) Direct telephone. +45 3339 4434 Source: HorizonScan E-mail adress cah@lf.dk