Belgium made suggestions to the Agriculture Council on Monday 14 October on ways to improve the effectiveness of the EU's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), following cases of listeria in the Netherlands in particular.
The RASFF system has proven its effectiveness, but it can be improved, said Belgian Minister Denis Ducarme. Belgium considers it important to further improve the speed of information transfer between Member States. We must rely on the imminent reactivity of each...