Risk ranking of ready-to-eat foods of non-animal origin in the EU
Résumé
Food of non-animal origin (FoNAO) are a major component of almost all meals and comprise a wide range of fruit, vegetables, salads, seeds, nuts, cereals, herbs, spices, fungi, and algae. Given the importance of outbreaks caused by contaminated foods of non-animal origin (FoNAO), there is a need to evaluate the establishment of specific control measures for certain FoNAO supplementing the general hygiene rules. Therefore, the European Commission asked the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to identify and rank specific food/pathogen combinations most often linked to foodborne human cases originating from food of non-animal origin in the EU (EFSA, 2013)
