---
id: "eu_rasff_reference"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["agriculture", "government"]
country: ["EU"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/eu_rasff_reference"
---

# EU RASFF notification reference (`eu_rasff_reference`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Reference of a notification in the EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), generated when the Commission validates the notification and shown in RASFF Window. It is the year, a dot and a sequence number padded to four digits, which grows to five digits after 9999 notifications in a year.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Agriculture, livestock and food (agriculture), Government related (government)
- Countries: European Union (EU)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^20\d{2}\.\d{4,5}$
```

## Examples

- `2020.0001` — Aflatoxins in dried figs from Turkey
- `2025.10001` — Suspected glass shards in preserved green beans from Belgium
- `2026.9858` — Salmonella Kentucky in organic sunflower seed cakes from Bulgaria
- `2024/1234` (invalid example) — Slash instead of dot

## Translations

- ru: Номер уведомления RASFF: Номер уведомления в системе быстрого оповещения ЕС о пищевых продуктах и кормах (RASFF) — год, точка и порядковый номер.

## Sources

- doc: <https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/rasff-window/screen/search>
- doc: <https://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety/rasff_en>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/eu_rasff_reference.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/EU/agriculture/eu_rasff_reference.yaml>