Albania — Fruits and Vegetables
Albania received 30 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 6 in 2025-Q3, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are formetanate, chlorfenapyr, and flonicamid. The list below gives the 20 most recent rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 16 carry the laboratory result and 17 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import fruits and vegetables from Albania
- 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).
- If it is rejected
- Destroyed 77%; re-dispatched 10%; not stated 7%; re-dispatched or destroyed 3%; held, final fate not recorded 3%. 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 (29), Italy (1), of 30 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- September, April, July, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- formetanate (8), chlorpyrifos (4), flonicamid (4), chlorfenapyr (3), nickel (3).
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 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 4 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 5 |
| 2025-Q3 | 6 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 5 |
| 2026-Q4 | 2 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peppers & Chilies | 18 | 1,847 t | 365.4 | formetanate |
| Citrus | 4 | — | — | chlorpyrifos |
| Other Vegetables | 2 | — | — | tebufenpyrad |
| Berries & Grapes | 2 | — | — | — |
| Tropical (Figs, Pomegranate, Mango, Dates) | 1 | — | — | aflatoxins |
| Stone Fruit | 1 | — | — | nickel |
| Other | 1 | — | — | chlorpyrifos |
| Leafy & Herbs | 1 | — | — | metalaxyl |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 28 | 7,352 t |
"1 rejection per X t": tonnes of the same product imported for every one, over the same 156 weeks. A dash means fewer than 5 in the window, or under 1,000 t a year imported, too few to rate; the total row pools every product that has import tonnes on record.
Recent rejections
- 2026.9527 Aflatoxins (aflatoxin B1 and total) in dried figs from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Aflatoxin B1aflatoxins
- 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
- 2025.6541 Chlorfenapyr in tomatoes from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,06 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorfenapyr
- 2025.6367 High content of nickel in peaches from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,267. nickel
- 2025.5433 Unfavorable documentary and identity checks in organic blueberries ( vaccinium myrtillus) from Albania Notified by Italy.
- 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
- 2025.4524 Residues of the pesticide chlorpyrifos in beets from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,025. chlorpyrifos
- 2025.3834 Formetanate in green beens from Albania Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,13. formetanatetebufenpyrad
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 18 notifications since 2020 concerned fruits and vegetables from Albania found after entering the EU — 5 alerts, 13 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 39%, monitoring or surveillance sample 28%, at the EU border 22%, company's own check 11%. 1 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 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
- 2025.0261 info: follow-upExcessive levels of the pesticide chlorpyrifos in clementines from Albania Notified by Lithuania. Monitoring or surveillance sample, reached the market. Result 0,029 ± 0,015 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 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
- 2024.5485 info: attentionExceedance of pesticide residue (Dieldrin) in carrots from Albania Notified by Denmark. Monitoring or surveillance sample, reached the market. Result 0.14 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). dieldrin
- 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
Data and downloads
Download all 56 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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