Shared counting rule
When a notification involves multiple hazards, combinations can occur simultaneously and their total can exceed the notification count.Combinations must not be added directly
Regulatory risk overview
Summarises regulatory signals, risk intensity and cross-border impact for the current filter, with a comparable-period view.
Metric definitions
Multi-value fields count notifications associated with each item. One notification may involve several items, so category totals do not equal unique notifications. An emerging combination is shown only when it has at least 10 current-period notifications and increases versus the comparison period.
Core indicatorsDetermining comparison period…
Generating management insight…
Monthly notifications
Current analysis and comparison periods aligned by relative time position
Monthly high-risk notification share
Unified definition: serious + potentially serious
Risk-decision mix
100% mix for the current analysis and comparison periods
Change in notification classification
Change in notification count versus the comparison period
Understanding the six risk decisions (severity is not the notification pathway)
seriousThe current risk decision in the RASFF record is serious; this does not automatically determine the notification classification or specific action.
potentially seriousAvailable information indicates potentially serious severity; this tool combines it with “serious risk” as high-risk-related notifications.
potential riskThe record contains a potential-risk signal, but it is outside this tool’s high-risk-related notification definition.
not seriousA risk is identified, but the current risk decision does not reach the serious level.
no riskThe current risk decision in the RASFF record is no risk; interpret it together with the case-specific facts.
undecidedThe record has not yet reached a conclusion on risk severity; this does not mean “no risk”.
“Risk decision” describes severity, “notification classification” describes the information-exchange and response pathway, and “analytical results” provide evidence. Interpret all three together; they are not substitutes. High-risk-related notifications are an analytical definition derived by this tool (serious risk plus potentially serious risk), not a new official RASFF classification.
Understanding the five notification classifications (classification is not risk severity)
Alert notificationsA risk involving food, feed or food-contact materials that requires rapid action in the market.
border rejection notificationA product consignment rejected at the EU/EEA border.
Information notification for attentionRisk information requiring attention, but usually no immediate follow-up action by other members.
Information notification for follow-upRisk information that may require follow-up or verification by other members.
non-compliance notificationA legal non-compliance outside the preceding RASFF rapid-response classifications.
“Notification classification” describes the information-exchange and response path; “risk decision” describes severity. Interpret them together, not as substitutes.
Product–hazard combinations and comparable-period change
Review analytical product-category scale and risk intensity first, then comparable-period changes in classified hazard categories. “Pending/not determined” remain available as data-quality states in filters, records and audits, but are excluded from business hazard rankings.
Analytical product-category scale and risk intensity
Counted by analytical product category. Each notification is first assigned to one primary regulatory object, and categories do not overlap across objects.
Identifying primary-object scope…Hazard-category scale and risk intensity
Shows classified hazard categories only; quality states are reported separately under Method & quality.
Analytical product category × classified hazard heat map
Top 10 analytical product categories × top 10 classified hazard categories under the current filter. Colour shows associated notifications; select a cell to open matching records.
Frequent specific risk factors (analytically consolidated)
Standardises unspecified Salmonella labels, avoids parent-level duplication when a serovar is specified in the same record, and separates regulatory status from substance identity
Record details and CSV exports retain the controlled and original EC terms. Consolidation is used only for analytical rankings to avoid duplicate synonyms and parent-child terms.
Comparable-period combination change
Current analysis period vs Comparison period
Countries, notification networks and distribution footprint
Country dimensions reflect regulatory visibility and supply-chain exposure; without a trade denominator they are not food-safety performance rankings.
Origin scale and high-risk association
X is associated notifications and Y is the high-risk-related share. Dark points have member-country cross-border distribution of at least 50%. Labels highlight the combined priority set (top 3 by volume and top 2 high-risk shares with a stable base; reduced on narrow screens); hover for all other origins.
Leading notifying countries
Ranked by notification count
Distribution status
Distribution of official controlled statuses
Origin-notifying-country association matrix
Top origins × top notifying countries; multi-origin records are apportioned equally and colour represents association weight.
Detection channels, record structure and actions
“Analytical result field present” reflects RASFF record structure only, not laboratory testing coverage; evidence structure and risk intensity should not be treated as interchangeable across detection channels.
Detection-channel record structure and high-risk association
Both measures use the same X-axis: filled dots show the high-risk-related share and open dots show the share with an analytical-result field; channels require at least 10 notifications.
Management-action categories
Grouped as withdrawal/recall, controls/restrictions, notification/traceability and technical disposition; one notification may involve multiple actions.
Ranking by analytical-result-field presence
For exact ranking only; not an assessment of laboratory coverage or testing capability.
Risk insights and action priorities
Uses the current filters and comparison period to identify new or materially increasing combinations that meet a stable-display threshold. Scale, risk intensity, cross-border distribution and consumer recall are displayed separately. This view prioritises regulatory signals; it does not predict incidence or assess company or country performance.
Action-priority workbench
Ranked by current scale, comparable-period change and triggers; key shares are shown as labels. Select a row to view the matching records.
Emerging / anomalous regulatory signals
Shows only analytical-product-category × classified-hazard combinations with at least 10 current-period notifications that are new versus the comparison period or meet both the absolute-increase and growth thresholds. Low bases are labelled separately.
Authenticity and compliance-integrity signals
Uses only officially classified hazard categories. It distinguishes fraud/adulteration, composition and identity integrity, and labelling/claim compliance. A regulatory signal is not a finding of fraudulent intent.
The headline total is deduplicated by notification; the classes below can overlap and must not be added.
Record details, CSV exports and official links retain the source hazard categories and complete case information. This view establishes a business screening order only; it does not replace fact-finding for an individual case.
Definitions, thresholds and boundaries
Emerging / unusual signal
At least 10 notifications in the current period; new versus comparison, or meeting both a net increase of 5 and growth of 25%.10 notifications · +5 · +25%
Action priority
Transparently ordered by scale, change, high-risk association, cross-border distribution and consumer recall; not an incidence rate or score.Rule-based ordering, not a black-box score
Authenticity and compliance integrity
Uses only officially classified hazards; signals do not establish subjective fraudulent intent.Regulatory signal, not a finding of fact
China-origin regulatory-notification view
This view forces “origin includes China” on top of the current dates and other filters, while ignoring the global origin filter. It presents RASFF regulatory notifications, not complete trade or supply-chain scale.
Comparable change in hazard categories
China origin; shows classified hazards with at least 3 notifications in either period.
Comparable change in analytical product categories
China origin; shows analytical product categories with at least 3 notifications in either period.
Leading notifying countries for origin China
Shows notifying countries with at least 2 notifications; single-notification countries remain in the detail records.
Recent records for origin China
Latest 15; select a reference for details
Filtered notification records
The table shows key fields; “Details” opens analytical results, complete actions and the official RASFF link. Export the analysis period alone or a combined file with explicit analysis/comparison-period roles.
| Date | Reference | Notification classification | Risk | Analytical product category | Product | Hazard category | Origin | Notifying country | Distribution status | Action |
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Method, quality and publication boundaries
Every key metric should be reproducible and traceable, with explicit limits on what RASFF alone cannot answer.
High-risk-related notifications (analytical definition)
risk_decision ∈ {serious, potentially serious}
Addresses the 2023 trend break created by use of “potentially serious”; looking only at “serious” understates recent high-risk-related records.
Period comparison
analysis period A
vs comparison period B
vs comparison period B
Supports calendar months, calendar quarters, YTD, rolling 12 months, prior-year periods and arbitrary custom periods. When period lengths differ, total notifications remain visible and daily-normalised change is shown alongside them; share metrics use percentage points.
Multi-value fields
record → origin / hazard / action relations
Origins, hazards, distribution countries and actions are represented as notification-item relationships. Charts show notifications associated with each item; one notification may appear under multiple items, so totals can exceed unique notifications.
Analytical risk-factor consolidation
source term → controlled identity → analytical label
Source terms are not overwritten. The analytical layer merges punctuation and clear synonyms, separates identity from regulatory status, and suppresses the generic Salmonella parent term when a specific serovar exists in the same record.
MECE product-classification governance
official fields + intended use + object state + reviewed exception → primary object + analytical category
Primary regulatory objects are mutually exclusive across food, feed, food-contact materials, live animals, live plants and planting material, and non-food technical products. Each analytical category belongs to one object. Official RASFF product type and category remain separate traceability fields and are not treated as a parent-child hierarchy.
Country-analysis boundary
- No trade-volume or sampling-volume denominator
- Affected by member-state enforcement and notification strategies
- Supports interpretation of regulatory visibility and combinations only
- Cannot directly assess national food-safety performance
Key quality items
- Analytical-result record coverage (current filter): Initialising…
- Classified-hazard coverage (current filter): Initialising…
- 31,969 unique IDs / references
- 584 records missing origin
- 9,900 records with an empty analytical-results field
- 2,332 records with a pending hazard category
- 140 product semantic candidates reviewed
- 169 product semantic corrections
- 0 pending product semantic reviews
- 0 unresolved product objects/categories
- 57 records with a negative update lag
Delivery and review
- English record content is sourced from the official EC public RASFF data
- Verify material cases against the official notification detail
- Verify regulatory conclusions against the applicable version
- New and revised records preserve the original EC English text
- Snapshot data, not a live connection
Feedback and continuous improvement
Share data or translation corrections, functional issues and new analytical needs. Feedback enters a private management workspace and is not published. Current filters, search terms, reports and records are never attached automatically.
Do not include client names, test reports, project references, trade secrets or other confidential information. Privacy and feedback rulesSource and version
Source file: rasff_public_index_enriched.csv
Query range: 2020-01-02 to 2026-08-30 | Actual latest EC validation: 2026-08-28 | Records: 31,969 | 38 fields
Source file SHA-256: fbfa9622b367a05baa3762d788272fcf8a031e517b435beb0ed74506cb6df718