What are the Incident Categories?
Incident Categories is a way to group incidents depending on what triggered the incident.
The Incident Categories are used in the Incidents search to help filtering posts, it is available by Industry, based on this selection, you may have different entries.
Food and Feed Industry
The list of Incident Categories for the food and feed industry is designed to cover the most common triggers of incidents in the area. Here below is the definition of each of the available labels.
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Label |
Description |
examples |
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Fraud |
Report of a deliberate and fraudulent alteration, substitution addition, tampering, or misrepresentation of food, food ingredients, or food packaging. |
Counterfeiting, Tampering, Grey market, Substitution-Dilution, concealment or artificial enhancement |
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Control |
Notification initiated through a sample taken at a border post for analysis, or official control on internal market. |
Border control, Official control |
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Recall |
Notification initiated through a company notifying the outcome of an own-check to the competent authority. |
Recall, Company's own check |
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Consumer complaint |
Notification initiated through a consumer lodging a complaint with the competent authority and media monitoring. |
Consumer complaint, monitoring of media, information for follow-up |
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Outbreak |
Reports of a food poisoning leading to the notification of a risk in a food on the market that has caused the food poisoning or an outbreak. |
Food poisoning |
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Other Incident |
Everything that does not fall into the previous categories - because for example the data is not available. |
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Smuggling |
Reports of the illegal import, export, transport, or distribution of food, feed, food ingredients, or related products. |
Illegal cross-border transport, undeclared goods, evasion of customs or veterinary checks, unauthorized entry into the market |
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