Albania — Fruits and Vegetables — Peppers & Chilies
Albania received 18 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Peppers & Chilies, part of Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q3, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are formetanate, flonicamid, and chlorfenapyr. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 365.4 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Albania over the last 3 years. The list below gives each of these 19 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 17 carry the laboratory result and 17 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import peppers & chilies from Albania
Below the median. Albania ranks 7th of 11 origins shipping peppers & chilies to the EU on border rejections per $1 billion of EU imports, at 365.4 — above 40% of them.
least riskmost risk
- Chance a consignment is opened at the EU border
- Not on the EU's increased-checks list, so only member states' routine, risk-based checks apply (rates not published).
- Rejections against import volume
- On average, 1 border rejection per 1,847 tonnes imported into the EU over the last 3 years; the 4th highest rejection rate of 7 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (EU import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- If it is rejected
- Destroyed 89%; not stated 11%. A re-dispatched lot can be sold elsewhere, a treated or sorted one can be released once it complies, and a destroyed one is lost.
- Where rejections happen
- Croatia (18), of 18 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- September, June, July, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- formetanate (7), flonicamid (4), acetamiprid (2), chlorfenapyr (2), nickel (2).
The EU does not publish how many consignments are shipped, so no page can state a true probability of rejection; these are the figures that are published.
Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 |
| 2025-Q3 | 3 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 5 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.9523 Chlorfenapyr in red peppers from Albania Notified by Croatia. chlorfenapyr
- 2026.8660 Proquinazide in red peppers from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. proquinazid
- 2026.8432 Flonicamid in red peppers from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,8. flonicamid
- 2026.7962 Flonicamid and acetamiprid in peppers from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 2,6. flonicamid
- 2026.7900 Proquinazid in red pepper from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,050. proquinazid
- 2026.7880 Acetamiprid in red peppers from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,23. acetamiprid
- 2026.5324 Acetamiprid in red peppers from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,41+/-0,21 (limit < 0.09 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2025.10196 Pesticide residues of Formetanate and heavy metal nickel in peppers from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0.045 (limit ≤ 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanatenickel
- 2025.8602 High content of nickel in peppers from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,6; 0,363; 0,5. nickel
- 2025.7444 Pesticides residues of Flonicamid, Chlorfenapyr, Tebufenpyrad in chili peppers from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,64. chlorfenapyrflonicamidtebufenpyrad
- 2025.5400 Tebufenpyrad in fresh peppers from Albania Notified by Croatia. Result 0,05 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). tebufenpyrad
- 2025.5095 Formetanate in fresh peppers from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,078. formetanatepirimiphos-methyl
- 2025.4741 Formetanate in fresh peppers from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,050 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2025.4734 formetanate hydrochloride in fresh peppers from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,53 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2025.1776 Pesticide residues of flonicamid in horn peppers from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,78. flonicamid
- 2024.5282 Formetanate in fresh peppers from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,04 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2024.3393 Formatanate in yellow pepperoni from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,027. formetanate
- 2024.3214 Formetanate Hydrochloride in peperoni from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,34. formetanate
- 2021.6498 Pesticide residues in fresh red horn pepper Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,046 +/- 0,023 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 11 notifications since 2020 concerned peppers & chilies from Albania found after entering the EU — 4 alerts, 7 information notifications. They are not part of the rejection figures or rates above, which measure border controls.
How they were found: official control on the market 45%, at the EU border 27%, monitoring or surveillance sample 18%, company's own check 9%. 1 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 to date | 1 | 1 | 0 |
- 2026.5598 alertExceeded levels of Fluopyram and Tebufenpyrad in peppers from Albania Notified by Slovenia. Monitoring or surveillance sample, reached the market. Result 0,024 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). flonicamidtebufenpyrad
- 2025.6834 alertpesticide residues in fresh pepper from Albania Notified by Slovenia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0.16 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). acetamipridflonicamidformetanate
- 2025.5160 info: attentionFlonicamid in fresh peppers from Albania Notified by Slovenia. Monitoring or surveillance sample, reached the market. Result 0,70+/-0,35 (limit 0,3 mg/kg - ppm). flonicamid
- 2025.5044 info: attentionstwierdzenie przekroczenia NDP Flonikamidu w Papryce szpiczastej odmiana Kapia pochodzącej z Albanii////confirmation of exceedance of the MRL for Flonicamid in pointed peppers originating from Albania Notified by Poland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 1,0 +/- 0,50 (limit 0,3 mg/kg - ppm). flonicamid
- 2024.8825 info: attentionFormetanate in capia pepper from Albania Notified by Hungary. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 0,095 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2024.7896 alertFormetanate in peppers from Albania Notified by Slovenia. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0,12 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2024.7187 alert Pirimifos-methyl and Formetanate in peppers from Albania Notified by Slovenia. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0,044 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanatepirimiphos-methyl
- 2024.5370 info: attentionFamoxadone and formetanate in fresh peppers from Albania Notified by Czechia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,037 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). famoxadoneformetanate
- 2023.2726 info: attentionFormetanate in fresh peppers from Albania Notified by Czechia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,35 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2022.7586 info: attentionUnauthorised substance chlorpyrifos in red pepper, origin Albania Notified by Romania. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0.142 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
Data and downloads
Download all 30 entries (CSV) — every notification behind this page, border rejections and those found on the market, with how each was found and what was done.
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