Source: European Commission
Poland alerted high levels of histamine in frozen tuna steaks from Spain last week. Among the values found were 1433.55 and 959.7 mg/kg – ppm.
The findings were made during an official control on the market and is to be withdrawn thereof.
Furthermore, the European Commission’s Rapid Alert System For Food And Feed published a correction to a previous notification. That of mercury found in red tuna (Thunnus tynnus ) originating from Spain.
The actual notification was not a border rejection because the product was not rejected at the outer Community border. For this reason, the notification classification has been changed into “informationâ€.