21 notifications on food additives and flavourings from Italy since 1 January 2020. That is 2% of all EU notifications on products from Italy and 10% of all notifications on food additives and flavourings from any origin; Italy ranks 7 of 37 origins for this category. 0 in the 365 days to 8 November 2026, against 2 in the 365 days before, down 100%.
Most reported: ethylene oxide (12), an unauthorised additive (4) and unauthorised colours (3). 0% were border rejections (14% for food additives and flavourings from all origins) and 57% had a serious risk decision. The products named most often were thickeners (9), food colours (2) and food additives (1).
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 Italy
The newest 21 of 21, newest first, each built from fixed word lists. The reference opens the official record.
- Alert notified by Belgium: chlorate in thickeners from Belgium, China and Italy, risk decision potentially serious, reference 2025.6360, validated 20 August 2025.
- Alert notified by the Netherlands: undeclared gluten in a food additive or flavouring from Belgium, Indonesia and Italy, risk decision potentially serious, reference 2025.4251, validated 5 June 2025.
- Information for follow up notified by the Netherlands: foreign bodies in a food additive or flavouring from Italy, risk decision not serious, reference 2024.4626, validated 17 June 2024.
- Alert notified by the Netherlands: sulphites above the permitted level in a food additive or flavouring from Italy, risk decision potentially serious, reference 2024.2169, validated 21 March 2024.
- Information for follow up notified by Hungary: unauthorised colours in food colours from Italy, risk decision potential risk, reference 2023.7080, validated 17 October 2023.
- Information for follow up notified by Spain: unauthorised colours in food colours from Italy and Spain, risk decision undecided, reference 2022.3274, validated 2 June 2022.
- Alert notified by Italy: undeclared peanut and an unauthorised additive in food additives from Italy and Spain, risk decision serious, reference 2022.3272, validated 2 June 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 a food additive or flavouring from India and Italy, risk decision serious, reference 2022.0433, validated 24 January 2022.
- Information for follow up notified by Italy: unauthorised colours in a food additive or flavouring from Italy, risk decision not serious, reference 2022.0248, validated 13 January 2022.
- Alert notified by Italy: ethylene oxide and vitamins, minerals or other nutrients above safe levels in a food additive or flavouring from India and Italy, risk decision serious, reference 2021.5622, validated 19 October 2021.
- Alert notified by Italy: ethylene oxide in thickeners from Italy, risk decision serious, reference 2021.4663, validated 1 September 2021.
- Alert notified by Hungary: ethylene oxide in thickeners from Hungary and Italy, risk decision serious, reference 2021.4586, validated 27 August 2021.
- Alert notified by France: ethylene oxide and an unauthorised additive in thickeners from Italy, risk decision serious, reference 2021.4458, validated 19 August 2021.
- Alert notified by France: ethylene oxide in a food additive or flavouring from Italy, risk decision serious, reference 2021.4442, validated 19 August 2021.
- Alert notified by Italy: ethylene oxide and an unauthorised additive in thickeners from China and Italy, risk decision serious, reference 2021.4381, validated 17 August 2021.
- Alert notified by Germany: ethylene oxide and vitamins, minerals or other nutrients above safe levels in a food additive or flavouring from Austria, Belgium, Denmark and 10 more countries, risk decision serious, reference 2021.4288, validated 11 August 2021.
- Alert notified by Italy: ethylene oxide in thickeners from Italy, risk decision serious, reference 2021.4063, validated 30 July 2021.
- Alert notified by Germany: ethylene oxide in thickeners from Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and 2 more countries, risk decision serious, reference 2021.3720, validated 13 July 2021.
- Alert notified by Germany: ethylene oxide and an unauthorised additive in thickeners from Belgium, Denmark, Finland and 7 more countries, risk decision undecided, reference 2021.3681, validated 12 July 2021.
- Information for follow up notified by Belgium: unauthorised genetically modified material in food enzymes from Italy, risk decision undecided, reference 2020.2579, validated 24 June 2020.
More: all notifications on products from Italy and food additives and flavourings from every origin.
The numbers
| Year | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2021 | 10 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 |
| 2026 (to 8 Nov 2026) | 0 |
| Type | Notifications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Alert | 16 | 76% |
| Information for follow up | 5 | 24% |
| Risk decision | Notifications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Serious | 12 | 57% |
| Potentially serious | 3 | 14% |
| Potential risk | 1 | 5% |
| Not serious | 2 | 10% |
| Undecided | 3 | 14% |
| Finding | Notifications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ethylene oxide | 12 | 57% |
| An unauthorised additive | 4 | 19% |
| Unauthorised colours | 3 | 14% |
| Vitamins, minerals or other nutrients above safe levels | 2 | 10% |
| Chlorate | 1 | 5% |
| Sulphites above the permitted level | 1 | 5% |
| Foreign bodies | 1 | 5% |
| Unauthorised genetically modified material | 1 | 5% |
| Undeclared gluten | 1 | 5% |
| Undeclared peanut | 1 | 5% |
| Product | Notifications |
|---|---|
| Thickeners | 9 |
| Food colours | 2 |
| Food additives | 1 |
| Food enzymes | 1 |
| Notifying country | Notifications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 6 | 29% |
| France | 4 | 19% |
| Germany | 3 | 14% |
| Netherlands | 3 | 14% |
| Belgium | 2 | 10% |
| Hungary | 2 | 10% |
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