Incident details
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Contamination
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| Food |
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| Rice |
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| 2009 |
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Switzerland – Illegal Bt63 rice found
On 27 March 2009, the EU RASFF system reported that illegal BT63 rice had been identified in rice noodles imported into Switzerland via Thailand and the UK. For further details see RASFF No 2009.0360
On the 24 April 2009, illegal Bt 63 rice was again identified on sale in Switzerland this time in rice sticks which had been imported directly from China. For further details see RASFF No 2009.0523
For full details of the contamination of food products with illegal Bt63 rice from China click here
*The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) is used by the EU Member States, Norway, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Switzerland. It was put in place to provide food and feed control authorities with an effective tool to exchange information about measures taken responding to serious risks detected in relation to food or feed.
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