{"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\nsource_document: \"EU RASFF notification\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"rasff-petfood-20260719\"\n  title: \"Dog chews dominate RASFF pet food notifications 2020–2025 (65 records, 25.5%)\"\n  url: \"\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-19\"\n  ref: \"\"\n  doc_type: \"official source\"\n  needs_review: true\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T1:eu-law\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-04\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":["rasff-petfood-20260719 — Dog chews dominate RASFF pet food notifications 2020–2025 (65 records, 25.5%) (retrieved 2026-07-19)"],"source":{"authority":"rasff-petfood-20260719","title":"Dog chews dominate RASFF pet food notifications 2020–2025 (65 records, 25.5%)","url":"https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/rasff-window/","retrieved":"2026-07-19","ref":"","doc_type":"official source","source_document":"EU RASFF notification","verification_file":"rasff-petfood-20260719.json"},"source_document":"EU RASFF notification","source_file":"rasff-petfood-20260719.json","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"verbatim","license":null,"display_grade":"A"},"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."}