RASFF Border Rejections Notified by Netherlands

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Netherlands issued 1,076 RASFF border rejections between 2019 and 2026, 11.2% of all EU border rejections in the dataset. The origins it rejects most often are India, Brazil, United States. Its most-rejected product category is Nuts, Nut Products and Seeds. Volume in 2025 was down 30% on 2024.

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Border rejections notified by Netherlands, by year

YearBorder rejectionsYoY
2019 2
2020 130
2021 145 +11.5%
2022 216 +49.0%
2023 180 -16.7%
2024 185 +2.8%
2025 130 -29.7%
2026 88 YTD
Total1,076

Origins most rejected by Netherlands

#Origin countryRejections
1 India 198
2 Brazil 152
3 United States 149
4 Egypt 94
5 China 76
6 Argentina 61
7 Turkey 61
8 Pakistan 60
9 Indonesia 41
10 Thailand 33
11 Kenya 28
12 Bolivia 19
13 Colombia 18
14 Vietnam 15
15 United Kingdom 13
16 Uganda 12
17 Nigeria 6
18 Ethiopia 5
19 Nicaragua 5
20 Ghana 4
21 South Africa 3
22 Malaysia 2
23 Morocco 2
24 Paraguay 2
25 Sri Lanka 2
26 Sudan 2
27 Uruguay 2
28 Bangladesh 1
29 France 1
30 Guyana 1

Product categories rejected by Netherlands

#Product categoryRejections
1Nuts, Nut Products and Seeds487
2Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products143
3Fruits and Vegetables139
4Herbs and Spices130
5Cereals and Bakery Products101
6Crustaceans and Products Thereof12
7Feed Materials12
8Meat and Meat Products (Other Than Poultry)10
9Fish and Fish Products9
10Cocoa and Cocoa Preparations, Coffee and Tea7
11Food Contact Materials5
12Fats and Oils4
13Animal By-Products3
14Dietetic Foods, Food Supplements and Fortified Foods3
15Other Food Product / Mixed3

Recent rejections notified by Netherlands

About RASFF border rejections

What is a RASFF border rejection?

A RASFF border rejection is a notification filed through the EU's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed recording that a consignment of food or feed was refused entry at the EU's external border after failing an official control. It is one RASFF notification type, alongside alerts and information notifications.

What is the difference between the notifying country and the country of origin?

The notifying country is the EU or EEA member state whose authority detected the problem and filed the rejection — for example France or the Netherlands. The country of origin is where the rejected product was produced or shipped from. These pages rank member states by the number of rejections they issued.

Do border rejections protect the single market?

Yes. By stopping non-compliant consignments at the external frontier, border rejections keep unsafe or mislabelled food and feed out of the EU single market, and the shared RASFF record lets every member state act on the same information.