Papapanagiotou Elias P
Laboratory of Animal Food Products Hygiene-Veterinary Public Health, Department of Hygiene and Technology of Food of Animal Origin, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Vet Sci. 2021 Nov 17;8(11):279. doi: 10.3390/vetsci8110279.
The serious alert and border rejection notifications on food from the European Union Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (EU RASFF) database were used to determine their lag phases (from sampling to notification dates). More specifically, 4503 serious alert notifications on food were used to calculate the percent (%) share of various lag phases in an overall fashion (for all EU RASFF Member States collectively examined) as well as for the top-three Member States (in notification numbers), in each one of seven hazard categories. The same procedure was followed for 5236 serious border rejection notifications in each one of five hazard categories on food. The lag phases calculated revealed a state of nonharmonization (in lag phases percent shares) both overall and among the top-three Member States, and in the same MS in various hazard categories in serious alert but less pronounced in serious border rejection notifications. Thus, a "Performance Effectiveness Reporting (PER)-50/30" indicator (over 50% of notifications being notified to the RASFF within 30 days of sampling) was proposed for both types of serious notifications, and its application herein has revealed volatility in performance effectiveness reporting among the top-three EU RASFF Member States in the hazard categories. Actions to harmonize this inconsistency should be pursued in the context of safeguarding public health, aiming at the fastest possible risk management and risk communication of serious contamination incidents on food. Finally, a proposal of an "RASFF country profile" is hereby proposed.
欧盟食品和饲料快速预警系统（EU RASFF）数据库中关于食品的严重警报和边境拒绝通知被用于确定其滞后阶段（从采样到通知日期）。更具体地说，4503份关于食品的严重警报通知被用于总体计算（针对所有共同审查的欧盟RASFF成员国）以及七大危害类别中通知数量排名前三的成员国中各个滞后阶段的百分比（%）份额。对于食品的五个危害类别中的每一个类别，对5236份严重边境拒绝通知也采用了相同的程序。计算得出的滞后阶段显示，总体上以及通知数量排名前三的成员国之间，在严重警报方面（滞后阶段百分比份额）存在不统一的情况，且在同一成员国的不同危害类别中也存在这种情况，但在严重边境拒绝通知中不太明显。因此，针对这两种严重通知提出了一个“绩效有效性报告（PER）-50/30”指标（超过50%的通知在采样后30天内通知给RASFF），其在此处的应用揭示了欧盟RASFF通知数量排名前三的成员国在危害类别中的绩效有效性报告存在波动。应在保障公众健康的背景下采取行动协调这种不一致，目标是尽快对食品严重污染事件进行风险管理和风险沟通。最后，特此提出“RASFF国家概况”的建议。
