{"topic_id":"RASFF_petfood_dog_chews_phenomenon","category":"rasff","context":"---\ntopic_id: RASFF_petfood_dog_chews_phenomenon\ncategory: rasff\ntitle: Dog chews dominate RASFF pet food notifications 2020–2025 (65 records, 25.5%)\nlang: en\nsource: rasff-petfood-20260719.json\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-19\ntokens_estimated: 420\n---\n\n`Subject` field substring matching on \"chew\" identifies **65 of 255\nrecords (25.5%)** as dog-chew related notifications in RASFF 2019–2026.\nThe earliest dog-chew notification in the dataset is dated\n**01-10-2020**; the most recent is **31-10-2023** (note: no dog-chew\nrecords appear in the 2024–2026 partial coverage, possibly because of\nenforcement changes or simply incomplete year-to-date collection).\n\nTop-4 origin countries for dog chew notifications:\n- Turkey (TR): 13\n- Poland (PL): 13\n- China (CN): 12\n- India (IN): 7\n\nGermany (DE) appears 6 times; Thailand (TH) and South Africa (ZA) and\nCzechia (CZ) each 2. Salmonella dominates the hazard profile inside the\ndog-chew subset at **31 of 65 (47.7%)**, with Enterobacteriaceae at **19\nof 65 (29.2%)**. By classification, dog chew notifications are\ndisproportionately serious: **25 alert notifications (38.5%)** and **19\nborder-rejection notifications (29.2%)** — together 44 of 65 (67.7%) —\nindicating regulators treat dog chew contamination as higher-risk than\nthe dataset average.\n\nSource: `rasff-petfood-20260719.json` 255 records → filter `subject\ncontains \"chew\"` (case-insensitive), 65 hits; classification and\norigin/hazard breakdowns via field enumeration.\n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":420,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}