Brazil — Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products
Brazil received 171 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 69 in 2024-Q2, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are Salmonella spp, Salmonella, and Salmonella typhimurium. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 159.4 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Brazil over the last 3 years. The list below gives the 20 most recent rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 19 carry the laboratory result and 18 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import poultry meat and poultry meat products from Brazil
Higher risk. Brazil ranks 1st of 3 origins shipping poultry meat and poultry meat products to the EU on border rejections per $1 billion of EU imports, at 159.4 — the highest 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).
- If it is rejected
- Held, final fate not recorded 49%; re-dispatched or destroyed 46%; re-dispatched 3%; destroyed 2%; treated, sorted or diverted 1%. 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
- Germany (78), Netherlands (59), Spain (14), of 171 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- May, June, April, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- salmonella (147), chlorate (17), salmonellen (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 | 3 |
| 2024-Q2 | 69 |
| 2024-Q3 | 5 |
| 2024-Q4 | 3 |
| 2025-Q1 | 17 |
| 2025-Q2 | 15 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 8 |
| 2026-Q2 | 10 |
| 2026-Q3 | 26 |
| 2026-Q4 | 14 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.9284 Salmonella Drogana in poultry meat Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result PRESENCE. Salmonella
- 2026.9279 Salmonella Minesota in poultry meat from Brazil Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result PRESENCE. Salmonella
- 2026.9278 Salmonella Minnesota in poultry meat Notified by Italy. Result PRESENCE (limit 0 null). Salmonella
- 2026.8823 Salmonella in frozen chicken meat from Brazil // Salmonella en carne de pollo congelada de Brasil Notified by Spain. Destroyed. Result Detectado (limit Ausencia /25g). Salmonella
- 2026.8797 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat preparation from Brazil. Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result Present (limit Not present /125g). Salmonella spp
- 2026.8795 salmonella spp. present in 125 g in a poultry meat preparation consignment from Brazil Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result present (limit Absent in /125g). Salmonella spp.
- 2026.8786 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat preparation from Brazil. Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result Present (limit Not present /125g). Salmonella spp
- 2026.8784 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat preparation from Brazil. Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result Present (limit Not present /125g). Salmonella spp
- 2026.8782 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat preparation from Brazil. Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result Present (limit Not present /125g). Salmonella spp
- 2026.8779 Salmonella spp in poultry meat preparation from Brazil Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result present (limit not present /125g). Salmonella spp
- 2026.8773 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat preparation from Brazil. Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result present (limit absent in /25g). Salmonella spp.
- 2026.8761 Salmonella Typhimurium in frozen chicken from Brazil // Salmonella Typhimurium en pollo congelado de Brasil Notified by Spain. Result Detectado en 25G / C=5 (limit Ausencia null). Salmonella typhimurium
- 2026.8708 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat from Brazil Notified by Italy. Treated, sorted or diverted. Result detected (limit not detected /25g). Salmonella
- 2026.8696 Salmonella Typhimurium in frozen chicken from Brazil // Salmonella thyphimurium en pollo congelado de Brasil Notified by Spain. Destroyed. Result detección (limit ausencia /25g). Salmonella typhimurium
- 2026.8578 Salmonella spp. in frozen chicken meat-preparation from Brazil Notified by Germany. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result nachgewiesen/detected (limit nicht nachweisbar /not detectable /25g). Salmonella
- 2026.8576 Salmonella spp. in frozen chicken meat-preparation from Brazil Notified by Germany. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result detected (limit nicht nachweisbar /not detectable /25g). Salmonellen
- 2026.8558 Salmonella spp. in frozen chicken meat-preparation from Brazil Notified by Germany. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result salmonella spp. (limit nicht nachweisbar /not detectable /25g). Salmonella
- 2026.8446 Salmonella Typhimurium in frozen chicken from Brazil // Salmonella Typhimurium en pollo congelado de Brasil Notified by Spain. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result Presencia (limit Ausencia en 25 g CFU/g). Salmonella typhimurium
- 2026.8382 Poor temperature control in frozen chicken meat from Brazil // Ruptura de la cadena de frío en carne de pollo congelada de Brasil Notified by Spain. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2026.8252 Salmonella spp. in poultry meat preparation from Brazil. Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result Present (limit Not present /125g). Salmonella spp
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 42 notifications since 2020 concerned poultry meat and poultry meat products from Brazil found after entering the EU — 3 alerts, 39 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 57%, company's own check 17%, at the EU border 14%, monitoring or surveillance sample 7%, consumer complaint or illness 5%. 4 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2023 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2024 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 to date | 18 | 0 | 18 |
- 2026.8050 info: follow-upSalmonella spp. i Listeria monocytogenes w mrożonym mięsie drobiowym z Brazylii // Salmonella spp. and Listeria monocytogenes in frozen poultry meat from Brazil via Netherlands Notified by Poland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Listeria monocytogenesSalmonella spp
- 2026.7535 info: follow-upSalmonella spp. in frozen chicken breast from Brazil. Notified by Czechia. Official control on the market, reached the market, re-dispatched. Result presence. Salmonella spp.
- 2026.7336 info: attentionSalmonella Heidelberg has been detected in frozen chicken fillet Notified by Lithuania. At the EU border, reached the market. Result Present in 1 out of 5 samples (limit Not allowed /25g). Salmonella Heidelberg
- 2026.7322 info: follow-upSalmonella spp. in frozen chicken breast fillets from Brazil, via Germany Notified by Czechia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result presence (limit absence /25g). Salmonella spp.
- 2026.7282 info: follow-upSalmonella spp., group O:21 (in 2 out of 5 units) in frozen chicken fillet. Notified by Latvia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result detected (2 from 5 units) /25g (limit Not approved null). Salmonella
- 2026.6758 info: attentionListeria monocytogenes detected in Frozen (IQF) Chicken Breast Notified by Ireland. At the EU border, not on the market. Result Detected in (limit Not detected in /25g). Listeria monocytogenes
- 2026.6743 info: follow-upSalmonella spp in care pasare, origine Brazilia // Salmonela spp in chicken meat from Brasil Notified by Romania. Monitoring or surveillance sample. Result DETECTAT (limit Nedectat / Undetected /25g). Salmonella spp
- 2026.6732 info: follow-upSalmonella spp in ficat pasare, origine Brazilia // Salmonella spp. in poultry liver, origin Brazil Notified by Romania. Monitoring or surveillance sample. Result Detectat / Detected (limit Nedectat / Undetected /25g). Salmonella spp
- 2026.6713 info: follow-upSalmonella spp. i Listeria monocytogenes w filecie drobiowym mrożonym // Salmonella spp. and Listeria monocytogenes in frozen poultry meat from Brazil via Netherlands Notified by Poland. Company's own check, treated, sorted or diverted. Result detected. Listeria monocytogenesSalmonella spp.
- 2026.6710 info: follow-upSalmonella z grupy „C” i Listeria monocytogenes w filecie drobiowym mrożonym // Salmonella spp. group C and Listeria monocytogenes in frozen poultry meat from Brazil via Netherlands Notified by Poland. Company's own check, treated, sorted or diverted. Result detected. Listeria monocytogenesSalmonella group C
Data and downloads
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