SummaryofFoodWarningsfrom2018
Mar 19, 2019 - Foods
SummaryofFoodWarningsfrom2018
The reports on www.lebensmittelwarnung.de provide a good overview of issues and public recalls related to food.
In this portal, the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) publishes warnings from food companies and authorities about health-threatening, repulsive, or otherwise unsellable food.
Here is a summary of all reports from the year 2018.
A total of 159 warnings were published on www.lebensmittelwarnung.de in 2018. With 71 biologically related warnings (45%), biological hazards, such as Salmonella, EHEC/STEC/VTEC and Listeria monocytogenes, dominated as in previous years.
The second most common cause of food warnings or recalls were physically induced hazards (28%). Plastic and glass parts were common causes here. Chemical hazards ranked third. They were responsible for the recall in 35 cases (22%). The most frequently occurring cause, by far, was allergens.
Furthermore, there were 9 cases of warnings that could not be assigned to any category. The most frequent of these were caused by labeling errors and sensory deviations.
More information about this portal can be found at www.lebensmittelwarnung.de
A detailed listing can be found below.
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