In April, the European Union's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) highlighted safety issues with 50 Turkish food products, resulting in 19 warnings and 31 rejections at the border. The RASFF detected either banned substances or excessive levels of permitted substances in 27 different food items from Turkey, covering 10 categories including fruits, vegetables, and dried goods.
Dried figs and fresh lemons were the most flagged products, with 14 and seven alerts respectively. Additionally, fresh peppers, grapefruit, and sesame seeds were each cited twice. Other products such as pistachios, peppercorns, frozen peppers, mulberries, hazelnuts/groundnuts, food supplements, apricots, thyme leaves, cumin seeds/powder, roasted red peppers, dried thyme, raisins, plums, and disposable tea were reported once.
France reported the highest number of concerns regarding Turkish exports in April with 15 notifications, followed by Bulgaria with 13, and Germany with six. Italy and Switzerland each made two notifications, while Greece, Romania, Hungary, Luxembourg, Spain, Denmark, and Belgium each reported one issue.
Source: hurriyetdailynews.com
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