Exclusive: EU regulations require the FSAI to submit a notification 'immediately' regarding any risk to human health, but it did so only after it was contacted by the Irish Mirror
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland took more than a week to issue an EU-wide alert regarding allegations of fraud affecting the traceability of Irish horse meat after they were brought to light in an RTÉ documentary earlier this month.
Under Article 50 of regulations known as the General Food Law, food safety authorities are required to issue a notification where they have “any information” relating to direct or indirect risks to human health deriving from food. The FSAI previously submitted a RASFF notification in January 2013 after it emerged that horse DNA had been discovered in frozen beef burgers and lasagne stocked by Irish and British supermarkets.
A spokesperson also confirmed that no such RASFF notification had been issued in 2018, when the FSAI launched an investigation into allegations of microchip tampering after a horse that had been recorded as slaughtered in February 2017 was subsequently found alive and well in Co Waterford.
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