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Dog chews dominate RASFF pet food notifications 2020–2025 (65 records, 25.5%)

RASFF_petfood_dog_chews_phenomenon

rasff 420 tok en 2026-07-19

Subject field substring matching on "chew" identifies 65 of 255 records (25.5%) as dog-chew related notifications in RASFF 2019–2026. The earliest dog-chew notification in the dataset is dated 01-10-2020; the most recent is 31-10-2023 (note: no dog-chew records appear in the 2024–2026 partial coverage, possibly because of enforcement changes or simply incomplete year-to-date collection).

Top-4 origin countries for dog chew notifications:

  • Turkey (TR): 13
  • Poland (PL): 13
  • China (CN): 12
  • India (IN): 7

Germany (DE) appears 6 times; Thailand (TH) and South Africa (ZA) and Czechia (CZ) each 2. Salmonella dominates the hazard profile inside the dog-chew subset at 31 of 65 (47.7%), with Enterobacteriaceae at 19 of 65 (29.2%). By classification, dog chew notifications are disproportionately serious: 25 alert notifications (38.5%) and 19 border-rejection notifications (29.2%) — together 44 of 65 (67.7%) — indicating regulators treat dog chew contamination as higher-risk than the dataset average.

Source: rasff-petfood-20260719.json 255 records → filter subject contains "chew" (case-insensitive), 65 hits; classification and origin/hazard breakdowns via field enumeration.

Sources

  • rasff-petfood-20260719.json