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Annual Report 2009 THE SYSTEM Market notifications These notifications report on health risks identified in products that are placed on the market in the notifying country. The notifying country reports on the risks it has identified, the product and its traceability and the measures it has taken. According to the seriousness of the risks identified and the distribution of the product on the market, the market notification is classified after evaluation by the Commission Services as alert notification or information notification before the Commission transmits it to all network members. Alert notifications An ‘alert notification’ or ‘alert’ is sent when a food or a feed presenting a serious risk is on the market or when rapid action is required. Alerts are triggered by the member of the network that detects the problem and has initiated the relevant measures, such as withdrawal/recall. The notification aims at giving all the members of the network the information to verify whether the concerned product is on their market, so that they can take the necessary measures. Products subject to an alert notification have been withdrawn or are in the process of being withdrawn from the market. The Member States have their own mechanisms to carry out such actions, including the provision of detailed information through the media if necessary. Information notifications An ‘information notification’ concerns a food or a feed on the market of the notifying country for which a risk has been identified that does not require rapid action, e. g. because the food or feed has not reached the market or is no longer on the market (of other member countries than the notifying country). Border rejection notifications A ‘border rejection notification’ concerns a food or a feed that was refused entry into the Community for reason of a risk to human or animal health. News notifications A ‘news notification’ concerns any type of information related to the safety of food or feed which has not been communicated as an alert, information or border rejection notification, but which is judged interesting for the food and feed control authorities in the Member States. News notifications are often made based on information picked up in the media or forwarded by colleagues in food or feed authorities in third countries, EC delegations or international organisations, after having been verified with the Member States concerned. 12
The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) Two types of notifications are identified: • an ‘original notification’ is a notification referring to one or more consignments of a food or a feed that were not previously notified to the RASFF; • a ‘follow-up notification’ is a notification, which is transmitted as a followup to an original notification. An original notification sent by a member of the RASFF network can be rejected from transmission through the RASFF, after evaluation by the Commission, if the criteria for notification are not met or if the information transmitted is insufficient. The notifying country is informed of the intention not to transmit the information through the RASFF and is invited to provide additional information allowing the rejection to be reconsidered by the Commission. An alert or information notification that was transmitted through the RASFF can be withdrawn by the Commission at the request of the notifying country if the information, upon which the measures taken are based, turns out to be unfounded or if the transmission of the notification was made erroneously. Schematic representation of the information flow of the RASFF: SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION OF THE INFORMATION FLOW OF THE RASFF Market Control Border Control Business/Consumer MEMBER COUNTRY NOTIFICATION RASFF ASSESSMENT Media Third country/international organisation RASFF PORTAL DATABASE ANNUAL REPORT FEEDBACK FROM MEMBER COUNTRIES RASFF TRANSMISSION FEEDBACK FROM THIRD COUNTRY CONCERNED MEMBER COUNTRIES EFSA EFTA THIRD COUNTRY CONCERNED Source: schema-RASFF.pdf 13
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