04.07.2015

The annual report of the European Union’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) has revealed a 25% increase in notifications of food or feed health risks compared to the year before, with salmonella in poultry being a particularly noteworthy risk.
The most reported Salmonella serotypes in 2014 were S. enteritidis (main source: Poultry meat), S. typhimurium (main source: Poultry meat), S. agona (main source: Feed materials).
Poultry and feed materials remain the most reported cause categories for Salmonella.
The frequent reports of S. enteritidis and typhimurium can be attributed to the food safety criterion for the absence of these serotypes in fresh poultry meat, as set in Regulation 2073/2005.
Most notifications on Salmonella made by France concern products of French origin; this is to some extent also true for Germany • Finland and Sweden, enjoying special guarantees on Salmonella-free fresh meat, are frequently notifying fresh meat from Germany (Finland) and from Poland and the Netherlands (Sweden). The Netherlands reported a high number (49) of border rejections of poultry meat preparations from Brazil, all from the same producing establishment in Brazil. This establishment has been under 100% border checks since 2013 and is still frequently notified in 2015.