ALTS decision on Yersinia enterocolitica in ready-to-eat foods
Nov 3, 2021 - Foods
ALTS decision on Yersinia enterocolitica in ready-to-eat foods
The resolutions from the 87th ALTS conference in June 2021 also addressed the assessment of findings of the pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica (ALTS resolution 2021/87/16).
In its 2013 statement, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) already stated that no human-pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica should be present in ready-to-eat foods. This avoids health risks to humans and better protects sensitive risk groups. Now, the ALTS also assesses a qualitative detection of the germ in ready-to-eat foods as unacceptably contaminated. It replaces its previous resolutions from 2009, 2010, and 2017, without resolving the contradiction between the reasoning and the assessment.
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Sources:
- BfR statement: https://www.bfr.bund.de
- ALTS resolutions: https://www.bvl.bund.de/
