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Since 2000, the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection (CAFIA) co-operates with so called Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), which connects EU member states with the European Commission and the European Food Safety Authority. RASFF is mutually interconnected network, which serves for announcing food and feed risks for consumer health. Rapid alert should protect consumer from dangerous foodstuffs (or vicariously feedingstuffs) wherever within this network. 

Although the Czech Republic is not an EU member state yet, it has been co-operating with RASFF for three years. The original informal co-operation has turned into official co-operation this year. By a decision of the European Commission, CAFIA became the National Contact Point for the RASFF system in the Czech Republic. CAFIA concentrates information from the State Veterinary Administration, the Central Institute for Supervision and Testing in Agriculture and bodies of public health protection. The General Directorate of Customs and the State Office for Nuclear Safety are co-operating with the National Contact Point too.

CAFIA has sent five notifications of risky products’ occurrence to the system so far. On the contrary, the Czech Republic has received nine notifications from RASFF in 2003. Two of these notifications, from 10 and 11 November 2003, were confirmed on the market of the Czech Republic and the products were withdrawn from circulation in time.

Subsequently, CAFIA was praised for prompt and operational procedure by the Commission's Directorate General for Health and Consumer Protection.