Zależność wybranych kategorii produktów i kategorii zagrożeń w systemie RASFF

The purpose of the article was to examine the relationship between chosen products categories and the hazards categories in the RASFF system within alert notifications and to determine the strength of this relationship. The sample was 2575 from 8175 alert notifications from the years 1980 to 2013, representing 31,5% of the population. The value of the calculated statistics x2obl pointed to the existence of this relationship, and the Tschuprow’s, Cramer’s and Pearson’s corrected contingency coefficients (near or above 0.5) indicate that it is moderate or strong. It can be concluded that in the examined sample hazards categories are characteristic for the products categories, which allows to take action to reduce the number of alert notifications and improve food safety for the consumer.