The most notified edible nuts were peanuts, with 219 notifications, followed by pistachios (66 not.) and almonds (40 not.). As in previous years, the main reason for notifying edible nuts was the presence of aflatoxins (80%). By country of origin, the most frequently notified edible nuts were peanuts from Argentina (17%), peanuts from USA (12%) and peanuts from China and Egypt (8% each). Compared with last year, notifications for peanuts from USA increased significantly (13 vs 48 not.), whereas the notifications for pistachios from USA and pistachios from Iran decreased by more than half (18 vs 43 not. & 14 vs 32 not., respectively).
As for dried fruits, dried figs (60 not.), dried grapes (50 not.) and dried apricots (13 not.) were the most notified. Aflatoxin contamination was the main reason for notifying (53 not.), followed by Ochratoxin A (47 not.) and sulphites (17 not.). Dried figs, dried apricots and dried grapes from Turkey were the most notified, representing 43%, 21% and 6%, respectively, of the total dried fruit notifications. The number of notifications for dried figs from Turkey increased by 54% compared with 2018 (37 vs 57), whereas in the case of dried apricots from Turkey, the number of notifications is more than three time less (34 vs 8).
The data presented here have been extracted from the RASFF Portal.