RASFF roundup

RASFF notifications that took my eye this week... Minced chicken doner from the UK unfit for human consumption (containing cat. 3 ABP - animal by-products); histamine (up to 3873 mg/kg - ppm) in canned mackerel fillets in olive oil from Spain; unauthorised substance ractopamine, an animal feed additive banned in many countries (presence) in chilled beef chops from the United States; too high content of sulphite (2057 mg/kg - ppm) in dried bananas from South Africa - that's a lot of sulphite ... and too high content of cyanide (1840 ±405 mg/kg - ppm) in bitter apricot kernels from India... 

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