Aflatoxin In The European UnionThe European Union is the largest consumer region in the world that generally does not produce peanuts. Consumption of peanuts in the EU is primarily as food, mostly as roasted-in-shell peanuts and as shelled peanuts used in confectionery and bakery products. Of the 25 EU member countries, only Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, and Spain produce groundnuts, totaling 3,894 metric tons in 2004. Importation of groundnuts was reported at 1,647,962 metric tons in the year 2002 (the latest available data). |
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October 12, 2005 - EU food risk tool highlights carcinogenic toxins in food chain...more September 6, 2005 - Four Mumbai-based firms lose export permit on EU complaint...more July 7,
2005 - New
recalls reflect EU food chain still exposed to risk...more June 28,
2005 - Listeria
and aflatoxins dominate food safety alerts in EU last week...more April 6, 2005 - The EU’s food-linked risk alert system bombarded in one week by the detection of potentially carcinogenic aflatoxins in nearly 40 food products on sale in the European market...more ——— Czech Republic August 12, 2005 - Czech Republic suspends Turkish hazelnut imports...more ——— Denmark An increased incidence of liver and biliary tract cancer was found in Denmark feed processing workers exposed to high aflatoxin levels...more ——— Hungary Oct. 27, 2004 - Hungary Bans Sale of Paprika...Health officials found that products distributed by three of the country's largest paprika companies contained more aflatoxin than permitted by law...more Hungary banned the sale of paprika, its signature spice, and told people not to use whatever supplies they had at home..more October 28, 2004 - ...levels of aflatoxin in some samples were 10 times higher than permitted...more November
11, 2004 - Potent
enough to have military applications, aflatoxin can damage the
liver, cause cancer and impair the immune system.
It was even once purported to be among Saddam Hussein's weapons
of mass destruction...more ———
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United Kingdom December 15, 2005 - National alert after Luton food scare...more June 26, 2005 - New European rules for Indian chillies...more April 19, 2005 - Five toxic British curry spices recalled...more March 24, 2005 - UK food agency finds high levels of the mycotoxins aflatoxin and ochratoxin A in the spice supply chain...more March 22, 2005 - Five brands of curry spice have been taken off shelves after tests found they had high levels of cancer-causing toxins...more December 3, 2004 - Christmas Shortage Of Brazil Nuts...many supermarkets are refusing to sell them in their shells...more November 29, 2004 - Food safety reaffirmed with infant foods in the UK...more November
20, 2004 - Concern has been expressed by the British Trust
of Ornithology (BTO) about the amount of aflatoxin on some imported
peanuts... September 3, 2004 - 150th Anniversary of John Snow and the Pump Handle...stop an epidemic of aflatoxin poisoning...more August 1, 2001 - A supermarket chain has removed a batch of own-brand peanut butter, after cancer-causing chemicals were found in a pot...more
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