Food safety glossary
Practical explanations, not official legal definitions.
RASFF
European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed.
Recall
Action to remove an affected product from the market or supply chain.
Import refusal
Decision concerning a consignment at import inspection; not necessarily a recall.
RTE
Ready-to-eat: intended for consumption without further treatment that removes relevant hazards.
Incident in RASFF Lens
A research view that can group sufficiently substantiated related alerts without discarding their individual sources.
RASFF Lens is not an official FASFC, RASFF, FDA or other government portal.