Chemical Contaminant and Additives occurrence (2011-2015)

This dashboard describes the data reported to EFSA as part of contaminants and additives monitoring activities.

Chemical contaminants may be in food or feed due to food production, distribution, packaging or consumption. They might also be present in the environment naturally or as a result of man-made activity.

EFSA also requires analytical data on food additives (usage and concentration in food) to support the systematic re-evaluation of all food additives on the EU market.

EFSA gathers data on these substances through continuous collections and/or calls for particular assessments. Aggregated statistics on data analysed in European countries and transmitted to EFSA through continuous calls for data are available here.

Please be informed that this specific dashboard only includes aggregated statistics on chemical contaminants and additives occurrence data reported to EFSA for the years 2011 – 2015.

This dashboard has not been updated with the data reported after the year of 2015. Once this specific dashboard will be updated with more recent data, the site will be updated accordingly.