AROC Report

The AROC (Annual Return of Official Controls) report is used to compile food surveillance sampling data for submission to the EU. It is primarily used by Northern Ireland, which remains subject to EU food safety legislation, but the report is available to all authorities and may be useful for broader surveillance analysis.

On entering the AROC report, you are presented with the following view.

This view is divided into three main areas:

• Date Range Filter

• Authority/Group Filter

• AROC Data Display Grid

Date Range Filter

The date range filter selects defaults based on financial years, or the slider can be used for a custom range.

The two light blue boxes display the currently selected date range. The dark blue buttons select a range based on the full financial year.

Below this, use the range slider to select a range of months. Click and drag the handles at the ends of the range to adjust the selection.

Authority/Group Filter

The Authority/Group filter selects between the different reporting groups your account has been allocated access to.

Fetching Data

Once a group has been selected, click Fetch to request data from the server. The Fetch button is disabled until a filter option is changed.

AROC Data Display Grid

The data display grid shows the results of the requested data. Sample counts are broken down as follows:

Food Category — shown on the vertical axis at the left of the grid.

Test Category — shown on the horizontal axis at the top of the grid.

For each Food/Test category, two totals are shown:

• The number of results returned.

• The number of tests that failed under the criteria defined for the AROC report.

AROC Food Categories

Report Title	Full AROC Definition
Dairy products	Dairy products
Dairy alternatives	Dairy alternatives
Fats and oils	Fats and oils and fat and oil emulsions
Edible ices	Edible ices
Fruit and vegetables	Fruit and vegetables
Confectionary	Confectionary
Cereals and cereal products	Cereals and cereal products
Bakery wares	Bakery wares
Fresh meat	Fresh meat
Minced meat, meat preparations and MSM	Minced meat, meat preparations and MSM
Meat products	Meat products
Fish and fishery products	Fish and fishery products
Eggs and egg products	Eggs and egg products
Sugar, syrup, honey and table-top sweeteners	Sugar, syrup, honey and table-top sweeteners
Salts, spices, soups, sauces, salads and protein products	Salts, spices, soups, sauces, salads and protein products
Food intended for particular nutritional	Food intended for particular nutritional uses as defined by Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Beverages	Beverages
Ready-to-eat savouries and snacks	Ready-to-eat savouries and snacks
Desserts excluding products	Desserts excluding products covered in categories 1,3,4
Food supplements	Food supplements as defined in point (a) of Article 2 of Directive 2002/46/EC of the Eurpoean parliament and of the Council excluding food supplements for infants and young children
Processed foods	Processed foods not covered by categories 1 to 17, excluding foods for infants and young children
Others	Others - foods not covered by categories 1 to 21
Food contact materials	Food contact materials

AROC Test Categories

Report Ttile	Full AROC Definition
Microbiological	Microbiological criteria (178/2004 and 2073/2005)
Pesticides	Pesticides in food
Contaminants	Contaminants in food
Residues	Residues of veterinary medicinal products in food
Labelling	Labelling, nutritional and health claims
GMOs	Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in food
Improvement agents	Improvement agents (additives, enzymes, flavourings, processing aids)
Irradiation	Irradiation
MACF	Contamination by/migration of food contact materials
Others	Others

Detailed View

Click any cell with a non-zero value to drill down into the underlying sample data.

Further filtering can be applied using the grid filter options on the right of the data grid.