# Data Dictionary - EU Food & Feed Safety Alerts (RASFF) - the restored open notification archive, cleaned

**Units:** stated per column in the descriptions below (this is a relational table; columns mix units).

| column | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| `reference` | str | RASFF notification reference (e.g. 1979.01) |
| `line_no` | int | 0-based line index within a notification (with reference, the primary key) |
| `notification_date` | str | Notification date (YYYY-MM-DD) |
| `notifying_country` | str | Country/authority that filed the notification |
| `origin_country` | str | Country of origin of the product |
| `notification_type` | str | Food, Feed or Food Contact Material |
| `notification_class` | str | alert / information / border rejection / for attention |
| `notification_basis` | str | How the issue was found (official control, border control) |
| `subject` | str | Free-text notification subject |
| `product` | str | Product name |
| `product_category` | str | RASFF product category |
| `hazard_category` | str | RASFF hazard category |
| `hazard_substance` | str | Substance / finding |
| `hazard_full` | str | Full hazard description text |
| `action_taken` | str | Action taken (recall/withdrawal, import not authorised, destruction) |
| `distribution_status` | str | Market-distribution status of the product |
| `result` | str | Analytical result value (where measured) |
| `result_unit` | str | Unit of the analytical result |

*Source: (c) European Union, source: RASFF (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed), DG SANTE / data.europa.eu.*