Sourcing Recall Information
Jun/09
If you want to see your own recall alert notification, it is readily available at the RASFF and RAPEX sites. You can also browse these sites if you want more information on recalls in general. For details of the food and beverage recalls and withdrawals in Europe, RASFF produces weekly reports. Unfortunately it is not user friendly, and there is no search engine to drill into the weekly PDF reports. However, if you wanted information on a specific sector please let us know and we will see what we can put together for you.
If you are interested in non-food consumer products in Europe, you would go to RAPEX weekly reports. This has a user-friendly search facility that enables you to search recall alerts using key words. It also shows pictures of the product in question.
Both sites provide details of the product and the reason for action as well as the notifying authority and the country of origin (when known!).
It should always be remembered that RAPEX and RASFF only report product incidents that are reported to them from the national authorities in Europe. It is still possible that some recalls and withdrawals are not reported to the authorities (although it is a legal requirement for safety issues) and some that are reported to the national authorities are not notified to the RASFF / RAPEX systems.
Links to the above and other official sites for other regions (including USA, Canada, Australia) are on the RQA Europe web site.
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