28 notifications on food additives and flavourings from France since 1 January 2020. That is 2% of all EU notifications on products from France and 13% of all notifications on food additives and flavourings from any origin; France ranks 4 of 37 origins for this category. 0 in the 365 days to 8 November 2026, against 0 in the 365 days before, no change.
Most reported: ethylene oxide (19), unauthorised genetically modified material (3) and an unauthorised additive (3). 0% were border rejections (14% for food additives and flavourings from all origins) and 71% had a serious risk decision. The products named most often were thickeners (17), food enzymes (3) and food additives (2).
Counts start on 1 January 2020 and run to 8 November 2026, the day the list was last read. A notification that names two countries of origin counts for each. Findings come from our word list matched against the EU subject line, which is never shown; 96% of all notifications match it, the rest count as other finding. Each reference links to the official record on RASFF Window. How this works.
Latest notifications on food additives and flavourings from France
The newest 25 of 28, newest first, each built from fixed word lists. The reference opens the official record.
- Alert notified by France: migration from a food contact material in a food additive or flavouring from France, risk decision serious, reference 2024.1035, validated 14 February 2024.
- Alert notified by Belgium: undeclared peanut in a food additive or flavouring from France, risk decision serious, reference 2023.5199, validated 1 August 2023.
- Information for follow up notified by Italy: undeclared sulphites and an unauthorised additive in food additives from France, risk decision not serious, reference 2023.3711, validated 2 June 2023.
- Information for follow up notified by Germany: undeclared peanut and an unauthorised additive in food additives from France, Germany, India and 1 more countries, risk decision undecided, reference 2022.2286, validated 19 April 2022.
- Alert notified by France: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France and Türkiye, risk decision serious, reference 2022.0539, validated 27 January 2022.
- Alert notified by France: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France and Türkiye, risk decision serious, reference 2022.0531, validated 27 January 2022.
- Alert notified by France: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France, Spain and Türkiye, risk decision serious, reference 2022.0529, validated 27 January 2022.
- Alert notified by France: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France, Italy and Türkiye, risk decision serious, reference 2022.0527, validated 27 January 2022.
- Alert notified by France: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France and Türkiye, risk decision serious, reference 2022.0512, validated 27 January 2022.
- Alert notified by France: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France and Türkiye, risk decision serious, reference 2022.0510, validated 26 January 2022.
- Alert notified by France: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France and Türkiye, risk decision serious, reference 2022.0509, validated 26 January 2022.
- Alert notified by France: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France and Türkiye, risk decision serious, reference 2022.0503, validated 26 January 2022.
- Alert notified by Luxembourg: ethylene oxide and vitamins, minerals or other nutrients above safe levels in a food additive or flavouring from France, risk decision serious, reference 2021.7254, validated 30 December 2021.
- Alert notified by France: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France and India, risk decision serious, reference 2021.6844, validated 13 December 2021.
- Information for follow up notified by France: unauthorised genetically modified material in food enzymes from China and France, risk decision undecided, reference 2021.6769, validated 9 December 2021.
- Alert notified by Belgium: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France, risk decision serious, reference 2021.6594, validated 3 December 2021.
- Alert notified by Germany: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France, Germany and India, risk decision undecided, reference 2021.6520, validated 30 November 2021.
- Information for follow up notified by France: unauthorised genetically modified material in food enzymes from China and France, risk decision undecided, reference 2021.4764, validated 7 September 2021.
- Information for follow up notified by Germany: ethylene oxide in a food additive or flavouring from France, Germany and India, risk decision undecided, reference 2021.4603, validated 30 August 2021.
- Alert notified by Belgium: ethylene oxide in a food additive or flavouring from France, risk decision serious, reference 2021.4536, validated 25 August 2021.
- Alert notified by France: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France, risk decision serious, reference 2021.4180, validated 5 August 2021.
- Alert notified by France: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France and Germany, risk decision serious, reference 2021.3954, validated 27 July 2021.
- Alert notified by Belgium: ethylene oxide and an unauthorised additive in thickeners from France, risk decision serious, reference 2021.3810, validated 16 July 2021.
- Alert notified by Germany: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France and India, risk decision serious, reference 2021.3128, validated 16 June 2021.
- Alert notified by Germany: ethylene oxide in thickeners from France, Germany and India, risk decision serious, reference 2021.2097, validated 27 April 2021.
More: all notifications on products from France and food additives and flavourings from every origin.
The numbers
| Year | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 |
| 2026 (to 8 Nov 2026) | 0 |
| Type | Notifications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Alert | 21 | 75% |
| Information for follow up | 7 | 25% |
| Risk decision | Notifications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Serious | 20 | 71% |
| Not serious | 2 | 7% |
| Undecided | 6 | 21% |
| Finding | Notifications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ethylene oxide | 19 | 68% |
| Unauthorised genetically modified material | 3 | 11% |
| An unauthorised additive | 3 | 11% |
| Foreign bodies | 2 | 7% |
| Undeclared peanut | 2 | 7% |
| Migration from a food contact material | 1 | 4% |
| Undeclared sulphites | 1 | 4% |
| Vitamins, minerals or other nutrients above safe levels | 1 | 4% |
| Product | Notifications |
|---|---|
| Thickeners | 17 |
| Food enzymes | 3 |
| Food additives | 2 |
| Notifying country | Notifications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| France | 14 | 50% |
| Germany | 6 | 21% |
| Belgium | 5 | 18% |
| Italy | 2 | 7% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 4% |
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