RASFF Border Rejections Notified by Netherlands

Q: 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.

Q: 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.

Q: 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.

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Netherlands issued 1,100 RASFF border rejections between 2019 and 2026, 11.1% 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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Key figures

What Netherlands does with rejected consignments, since 2020: Held, final fate not recorded: 65%; Re-dispatched or destroyed: 16%; Treated, sorted or diverted: 11%; Destroyed: 5%; Not stated: 2%; Re-dispatched: 1% (all EU border rejections: held, final fate not recorded 33%; destroyed 21%; re-dispatched 19%; re-dispatched or destroyed 13%; treated, sorted or diverted 8%; not stated 6%). Source: RASFF Window notification records.

Border rejections notified by Netherlands, by year

Year	Border rejections	YoY
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	112	—	YTD
Total	1,100

Origins most rejected by Netherlands

#	Origin country	Rejections
1	India	201
2	Brazil	164
3	United States	150
4	Egypt	94
5	China	77
6	Argentina	62
7	Turkey	61
8	Pakistan	60
9	Indonesia	41
10	Thailand	33
11	Kenya	28
12	Vietnam	21
13	Bolivia	19
14	Colombia	18
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

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Product categories rejected by Netherlands

#	Product category	Rejections
1	Nuts, Nut Products and Seeds	492
2	Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products	155
3	Fruits and Vegetables	139
4	Herbs and Spices	130
5	Cereals and Bakery Products	101
6	Fish and Fish Products	15
7	Crustaceans and Products Thereof	12
8	Feed Materials	12
9	Meat and Meat Products (Other Than Poultry)	11
10	Cocoa and Cocoa Preparations, Coffee and Tea	7
11	Food Contact Materials	5
12	Fats and Oils	4
13	Animal By-Products	3
14	Dietetic Foods, Food Supplements and Fortified Foods	3
15	Other Food Product / Mixed	3

Recent rejections notified by Netherlands

2026.9245 2026-10-19 Unauthorized treatment with ionizing radiation of frozen Pangasius fillets from VietnamFrom Vietnam, Fish and Fish Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result >5 (limit <5 µg/kg - ppb).
2026.9242 2026-10-19 Unauthorized treatment with ionizing radiation of frozen Pangasius fillets from Vietnam.From Vietnam, Fish and Fish Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result >5 (limit <5 µg/kg - ppb).
2026.9047 2026-10-12 Unauthorized treatment with ionizing radiation of frozen Pangasius fillets from Vietnam.From Vietnam, Fish and Fish Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
2026.9046 2026-10-12 Unauthorized treatment with ionizing radiation of frozen Pangasius fillets from Vietnam.From Vietnam, Fish and Fish Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
2026.8797 2026-10-05 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat preparation from Brazil. From Brazil, Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
2026.8795 2026-10-05 salmonella spp. present in 125 g in a poultry meat preparation consignment from BrazilFrom Brazil, Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
2026.8786 2026-10-05 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat preparation from Brazil. From Brazil, Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
2026.8784 2026-10-05 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat preparation from Brazil. From Brazil, Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
2026.8782 2026-10-05 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat preparation from Brazil. From Brazil, Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
2026.8779 2026-10-05 Salmonella spp in poultry meat preparation from BrazilFrom Brazil, Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
2026.8773 2026-10-05 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat preparation from Brazil.From Brazil, Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
2026.8564 2026-09-28 Aflatoxins in Argentine peanutsFrom Argentina, Nuts, Nut Products and Seeds. Treated, sorted or diverted. Result 8.4 (limit 2 µg/kg - ppb).
2026.8311 2026-09-18 Nitrite (14 mg/kg) in frozen tuna from VietnamFrom Vietnam, Fish and Fish Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 21 (limit not present mg/kg - ppm).
2026.8252 2026-09-17 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat preparation from Brazil. From Brazil, Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result Present (limit Not present /125g).
2026.8249 2026-09-17 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat preparation from Brazil. From Brazil, Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result Present (limit Not present /25g).
2026.8060 2026-09-11 Nitrite (11 mg/kg) in frozen tuna from VietnamFrom Vietnam, Fish and Fish Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 17 (limit absent in mg/kg - ppm).
2026.8010 2026-09-10 Aflatoxin B1 18 ppb in groundnuts from USAFrom United States, Nuts, Nut Products and Seeds. Official control on the market, reached the market, treated, sorted or diverted. Result 18 (limit 2.0 µg/kg - ppb).
2026.7854 2026-09-04 Intercepted consignment with illegal and infected goods from ChinaFrom China, Meat and Meat Products (Other Than Poultry).
2026.7844 2026-09-04 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat preparation from Brazil. From Brazil, Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result Present (limit Not present /25g).
2026.7678 2026-08-31 Exceedance of aflatoxin B1 in HPS groundnuts from IndiaFrom India, Nuts, Nut Products and Seeds. Treated, sorted or diverted. Result 180 (limit 20 µg/kg - ppb).

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.