National and international experiences in 2006 of the operation of Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF).

摘要

The globalization of trade means that food/feed presenting a risk to human health may be distributed worldwide. In order to ensure that all measures required to protect consumer health are taken without delay in a coordinated manner, an international network for rapid exchange of information is essential. The project of worldwide RASFF has envisaged realization of these conditions. Structure of this system and information flow among member countries will be introduced in the first part of the article. Then the most important RASFF notifications of 2006, especially the most successful control, which is used to select inferior quality food are presented. After introduction of international experiences, the Hungarian ones are presented as well. Because the system has been working efficiently, there was no problem in the food chain in 2006.