Food safety alerts from Europe

CZECH REPUBLIC, long grain boil-in-bag rice from unknown origin, via PolandReason: lead (0.51; 0.293 mg/kg ppm Notification Basis: official control o

Here is today’s list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues.

Here is today’s list of food safety recalls, product withdrawals, allergy alerts and miscellaneous compliance issues.

Week 23, European countries' food safety alerts.

Swedish supermarket chain Ica has removed all frozen strawberries from its stores due to the risk of hepatitis A contamination, according to Swedish n

More than 1,300 Hepatitis A cases have been reported in 11 countries by the European Food Safety Authority since January 2013, with 240 confirmed case

Cargill announced that it will expand its full line of ester fluids across Europe by mid-2013.

Price ratios for cocoa butter, a key ingredient in chocolate, firmed this week on the lack of supplies from cocoa-growing countries, European traders

There was a surprising lag in the launch of new products containing stevia in Europe last year – but look out for a sharp increase in 2013, says Eurom