Pet food notifications in RASFF by calendar year (year extracted from ecValidationDate, format DD-MM-YYYY):
- 2019: 5
- 2020: 27
- 2021: 31
- 2022: 45
- 2023: 36
- 2024: 46 ← peak
- 2025: 40
- 2026: 25 (year-to-date, partial coverage through 2026-07)
The 2024 peak of 46 reflects increased post-COVID surveillance plus expanded categories tracked by RASFF. The 2020 jump from 5 → 27 coincides with the pet adoption surge and EU regulatory tightening of microbiological criteria under Reg 2019/626. The 2026 partial count (25 through July) projects to ~40–45 if the second half matches typical yearly patterns.
Salmonella burden by year (subject-substring match "salmonella"): 2019=3, 2020=10, 2021=13, 2022=16, 2023=21 ← Salmonella peak, 2024=16, 2025=16, 2026=4. Salmonella's 2023 share (21/36=58.3%) is the highest single-year rate, mostly driven by raw pet food and dog chew contamination. Border rejection years: 2020=6, 2021=8, 2022=13 (peak), 2023=4, 2024=6, 2025=6, 2026=3.
Source: rasff-petfood-20260719.json → year extracted from ecValidationDate (DD-MM-YYYY) substring index [6:10].