食品伙伴網(wǎng)導(dǎo)讀：近日，來自布魯塞爾的一份報(bào)告顯示，2009年歐盟食品和飼料快速預(yù)警系統(tǒng)（RASFF）對污染事件的報(bào)告數(shù)量平均每天近22個(gè)，達(dá)到了歷史最高水平。去年，RASFF共收到了約8000份通報(bào)信息，比上一年增加了約12%。
在每周的通報(bào)名單中，最常見的不合格項(xiàng)目是致病性微生物，過敏原，重金屬和霉菌毒素。
但歐盟委員會在報(bào)告中說，增加并不意味著該地區(qū)的食品的安全程度降低。相反，數(shù)字創(chuàng)下了新高，因?yàn)榧词故遣惶珖?yán)重的問題，會員國也采取了了更多的后續(xù)行動(dòng)。它補(bǔ)充說，去年人們第一次遠(yuǎn)離了一些重大的食品安全方面的恐慌 。
衛(wèi)生和消費(fèi)者政策John Dalli專員強(qiáng)調(diào)，調(diào)查結(jié)果顯示會員國之間對食品安全信息的共享日益開放，但他告誡說，沒有人可以對這個(gè)問題放松警惕。
該報(bào)告突出了若干問題和趨勢：
•所有食品類別中對黃曲霉毒素的通報(bào)顯著減少；
•對轉(zhuǎn)基因食品的通報(bào)大量增加，有大量未經(jīng)授權(quán)的有關(guān)亞麻籽FP967數(shù)目。首次在2009年從加拿大進(jìn)口到歐盟的船運(yùn)貨物中大量發(fā)現(xiàn)。
•在孟加拉國和印度蝦檢出禁用的硝基呋喃方面的報(bào)告很多。硝基呋喃是用于蝦的一種抗生素，但由于其致癌性在歐盟禁止使用。
•食物補(bǔ)充劑中未經(jīng)授權(quán)的物質(zhì)方面的通報(bào)增加。
•會員國有關(guān)食品中過敏原的通報(bào)增加。
原文報(bào)道：The number of contamination incidents reported through the European Union’s food safety alert system reached record levels last year, with an average of almost 22 logged each day during 2009, said a report from Brussels.
The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) received a total of nearly 8,000 notifications in 2009 – a year-on-year jump of almost 12 per cent on 2008, said the EC. The amount of alert notifications on serious risks also increased slightly compared to the previous year to 557.
Pathogenic micro-organisms, allergens, heavy metals and mycotoxins were among the risks most commonly reported to the weekly list issued by the Europe Commission (EC).
But the EC said the increase in reports did not mean the region’s food system was less safe. Instead, numbers hit a record high because member states had sent more follow-up notifications, even for less serious problems, said the body. It added that last year was the first in some time that had been free from any major safety scares.
Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, John Dalli stressed the findings showed there was an increasing openness among member states to share information on food safety but he cautioned that nobody could relax over the issue.
"We cannot rest on our laurels when it comes to food safety, even if 2009 is the first year [for a long time] without any significant incidents being reported in the RASFF,” he said.
Report findings
The report highlighted a number of issues and trends:
A significant decrease in notifications on aflatoxins in all food categories
A substantial increase in notifications on genetically modified food – with a large number relating to unauthorised linseed FP967. This was first detected in Europe in 2009, in a substantial number of shiploads imported into the EU from Canada.
More findings were reported on forbidden nitrofurans in shrimps from Bangladesh and India. Nitrofurans are antibiotics used for treatment of shrimps but are forbidden in the EU because of their carcinogenicity
A rise in notifications for unauthorised substances in food supplements
Increased reporting by member states of risks related to allergens in food
Notification types
The report said that two thirds of the notifications related to products originating from within the EU and that almost all these problems were identified by controls carried out on the market.
Some 3,322 original notifications were made through the RASFF system last year - of which 1,796 market notifications, 1,484 border rejections and 42 news notifications. These original notifications gave rise to 4,767 follow-up notifications, representing on average about 1.4 follow-ups per original notification. The figures represent a 5.8 per cent increase in original notifications and a 17.7 per cent increase in follow-up notifications; resulting in an overall jump of 13.4 per cent.
Commissioner Dalli said: “The high number of RASFF notifications shows that Member States are very willing to cooperate beyond their national borders to safeguard our high level of food safety in the EU."
RASFF now has 34 members after Switzerland joined as a partial associate for products of animal origin. More than 60 countries that are not members were connected to the system last year. The EC said this “was only the beginning” and that three seminars on RASFF had already been held in Vietnam and Macao, for Asian countries and in South Africa for the African continent. A mission in Indonesia was the first of a series of sustained training missions, where EU experts are sent on the spot to help authorities to set up their alert system.
