The alerts from EU generated during 12 - 18 January 2021 are as under:
1. Alert: Unauthorised substance ethylene oxide in various quantities in sesame seeds and organic hulled with sesame seeds from India.
- Notification from: Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Greece
- Risk: Serious
- Notification type: Food - alert - company's own check
2. Alert: Unauthorised substance chlorpyrifos (0.054 mg/kg - ppm) in black sesame seeds from India.
- Notification from: Netherlands
- Risk: Undecided
- Notification type: Food - alert - company's own check
- Action Taken: Informing consignor
- Date: 13-01-2021
3. Alert: Withdrawal from the market of organic anise cakes from Spain, with raw material from India, via the Netherlands possibly contaminated with unauthorised substance ethylene oxide.
- Notification from: Spain
- Risk: Undecided
- Notification type: Food - information for follow-up - company's own check
- Action Taken: Withdrawal from the market
- Date: 13-01-2021
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