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This Brief aims at providing a general understanding of the rationale – scientific as well as political – behind EU policy and related risk management decisions in the area on non-animal food imports. Lately, various menaces associated with imported food and feed of non-animal origin appeared in the media: imported sprout seeds contaminated with E. coli, strawberries containing hepatitis A or noro viruses, to name but a few, are now as much discussed as the different well-known meat scandals. The authors explain the reinforced official controls at EU borders on certain imports of non-animal origin and the wide range of EU measures that currently foresee trade restrictions for imports presenting chemical and non-chemical ‘high risks’ from a public health perspective (so-called ‘emergency measures’). The Brief closely examines chemical (and also non-chemical) risks associated with imports of non-animal origin and their impact on human health. The authors also consider the role risk analysis is playing to underpin risk-management decisions at EU level, including the scientific output by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

Chemistry. --- Food Science. --- Medical Microbiology. --- European Law. --- Microbiology. --- Medical Biochemistry. --- Food science. --- Biochemistry. --- Chimie --- Microbiologie --- Biochimie --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Biomedical Engineering --- Food industry and trade --- Foreign trade regulation --- Produce trade --- Food adulteration and inspection --- Food law and legislation --- Food contamination --- Imports --- Prevention. --- Safety measures --- Inspection --- Contaminated food --- Food --- Foods, Contaminated --- Analysis of food --- Food, Pure --- Food inspection --- Inspection of food --- Pure food --- Agricultural marketing --- Agricultural products --- Food trade --- Food preparation industry --- Food processing industry --- Contamination --- Adulteration --- Medical microbiology. --- Medical biochemistry. --- International law. --- Biotechnology. --- International trade --- Contamination (Technology) --- Agriculture --- Commodity exchanges --- Farm produce --- Food processing --- Food technology --- Agricultural processing industries --- Processed foods --- Adulterations --- Consumer protection --- Public health --- Sanitary chemistry --- Economic aspects --- Processing --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Biology --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Microbial biology --- Microorganisms --- Science --- Composition --- Food—Biotechnology. --- Law—Europe. --- Medical biochemistry --- Pathobiochemistry --- Pathological biochemistry --- Biochemistry --- Pathology