Official routine monitoring of phycotoxins and toxinproducing algae is regularly implemented in the marine environment through phytoplankton identification in water samples, as well as by official analysis in shellfish in order to verify compliance with the maximum limits set in regulation (EC) no.853/2004. These activities are conducted by the official REPHY network, coordinated by IFREMER (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea). As for other food safety hazards, the issue of emerging and non-regulated hazards needs to be fully addressed in addition to the ongoing above-mentioned surveillance efforts. This issue was submitted to ANSES (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety) in the surveillance framework... |