Report on food and food ingredients treated with ionising radiation for the years 2016-2017

Summary:

Report presented on 8 October 2019 by the European Commission on food irradiation during the period from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2017.

Further information:

Directive 1999/2/EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning foods and food ingredients treated with ionising radiation requires Member States to forward to the European Commission every year:

• the results of checks carried out in ionising irradiation facilities, including, in particular, the categories and quantities of foodstuff treated with ionising radiation and the doses administered, and
• the results of checks carried out at product marketing stage.

This report covers the period from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2017. It contains a compilation of the information forwarded to the Commission by 28 Member States on 2016 and 27 Member States on 2017. Malta did not submit any data for the year 2017.