Argentina — Fruits and Vegetables
Argentina received 5 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fruits and Vegetables between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 4 in 2024-Q3, with the trend newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are paraquat, 2,4-D, and Aflatoxin B1.
Key figures
If you import fruits and vegetables from Argentina
- 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
- Re-dispatched or destroyed 80%; held, final fate not recorded 20% (792 tonnes in all). 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
- Portugal (4), Italy (1), of 5 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Test for before shipping
- 2,4-d (2), paraquat (2), aflatoxins (1).
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.
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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 4 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 5 | — | — | paraquat |
| Citrus | 0 | — | — | — |
"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
- 2026.7259 Aflatoxins in peanuts from Argentina Notified by Italy. Result 6.8 ± 2.0 μg/kg (limit 2,0 mg/kg - ppm). Aflatoxin B1aflatoxin total
- 2024.5894 Presença de Residuos de Pesticidas, em grão de bico com origem na Argentina Notified by Portugal. Reached the market, re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2024.5890 Presença de Residuos de Pesticidas, em grão de bico com origem na Argentina // Presence of pesticide residues in chickpeas from Argentina Notified by Portugal. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,091 (limit 0,2 mg/kg - ppm). paraquat
- 2024.5851 Presença dos aditivos E 339i (Fosfato monossódico), E450ii (tetrapirofosfato de sódio), E452i (hexametafosfato de sódio) não autorizados na categoria 06.4.2- Massas secas e do aditivo E341 não autorizado na categoria 12.2.2- Temperos e condimentos. Notified by Portugal. Reached the market, re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,16 (limit 0,05 mg/kg - ppm). 2,4-D
- 2024.5606 Presença de resíduos de pesticidas em grão com origem na Argentina / Presence of pesticide residues in chickpeas from Argentina Notified by Portugal. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,079 mg/kg (limit LMR= 0,02mg/kg null). 2,4-Dparaquat
- 2021.5344 Pesticides residues in fresh oranges from Argentina Notified by Romania. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 1.549+/- 0.77450 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). propiconazole
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 17 notifications since 2020 concerned fruits and vegetables from Argentina found after entering the EU — 6 alerts, 11 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 53%, company's own check 24%, monitoring or surveillance sample 12%, at the EU border 12%. 5 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026 to date | 3 | 1 | 2 |
- 2026.6317 info: attention Przekroczenie NDP glufosynatu w gruszce pochodzącej z RPA // Exceedance of the MRL for glufosinate in a pear from South Africa Notified by Poland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,28 ± 0,14 (limit 0,1 mg/kg - ppm). glufosinate
- 2026.4319 info: attentionPesticide residue above MRL in apples from Argentina Notified by Norway. Monitoring or surveillance sample, reached the market. Result 0,58 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). propargite
- 2026.3210 alertOchratoxin A in organic raisins from Argentina Notified by Norway. Monitoring or surveillance sample, reached the market. Result 15,88 (limit 8 µg/kg - ppb). ochratoxin A
- 2025.10371 alertOchratoxin A in organic raisins blue from Argentina Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market, re-dispatched. Result 45.5 (limit 8.0 µg/kg - ppb). ochratoxin A
- 2025.10264 alertOchratoxin A in organic dried vine fruits from Argentina Notified by Luxembourg. Official control on the market, reached the market, re-dispatched. Result 45.5 +/- 11.9 (limit 8 µg/kg - ppb). ochratoxin A
- 2025.8991 info: follow-upMRL exceedance for phosphonic acid in beans Notified by France. Company's own check, re-dispatched. Result 5,2. fosetyl and phosphonates
- 2025.7655 info: attentionPesticide residues in oranges from Argentina Notified by France. Company's own check. Result 5,1 (± 2,6) (limit 4 mg/kg - ppm). imazalilthiabendazole
- 2025.0317 info: attentionChlorates in raisins, from Argentina Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, not on the market, re-dispatched. Result 1,2 (limit 0.235 mg/kg dry matter). chlorate
- 2024.8841 info: attentionPesticide detected in chia seeds from Argentina. Notified by Norway. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,019 mg/kg. chlorpyrifos-methyl
- 2024.6266 alertDeltamethrin in chickpea from Argentina Notified by Switzerland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 5.93 (limit 1 mg/kg - ppm). deltamethrinpiperonylbutoxide
Data and downloads
Download all 23 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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