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There were 43 recalls of food products in the United Kingdom between Nov. 1, 2011, and Oct. 31, 2012, according to London-based law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain L.L.P.
So far in 2013, there have been 55 product “incidents” in the European Union, some of which required recalls, according to E.U. data.
In a recent meeting of the European Parliament's food safety committee, members of the entire Parliament called for more tests of meat throughout the food chain and for member states to enforce the European Commission's rules on food labeling.
Major food safety crises in Europe include the outbreak of bovine spongiform enceph-alopathy, or “mad cow disease,” in British beef that led to an E.U. ban on the export of British beef from March 1996 until May 2006. BSE can cause variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.