Relatório rasf
European Commission
The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF)
Annual Report
2009
The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF)
Annual Report
2009
A nnual Report 2009
The Health and Consumers Directorate-General of the European Commission manages the Rapid
Alert System for food and Feed (RASFF). This report describes the activity of the RASFF in 2009.
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T he Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF)
FOREWORD
It is a great pleasure for me to provide this year’s foreword to the RASFF annual report. Another year brings another report illustrating that we cannot rest on our laurels when it comes to food safety, even if 2009 is the first year since long without any incidents of significant proportion being reported in the RASFF.
Still, the number of notifications issued by