Brazil — Fruits and Vegetables
Brazil received 12 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fruits and Vegetables between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 6 in 2026-Q1, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are acephate, methamidophos, and thiophanate-methyl.
Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters
Recent rejections
- 2026.6632 PortugalRejeição de Polpas de Frutas Congeladas com aditivo não autorizado (E211 Benzoato de ódio)
- 2026.2060 PortugalUtilização de Aditivo não autorizado para revestimento da superfície dos frutos
- 2026.1519 LuxembourgFresh limes (citrus latifolia) from Brazil to Portugal contaminated with pesticide demeton demeton
- 2026.0232 PortugalResíduos de Pesticidas em Feijão encarnado // pesticide residues in red beans acephatemethamidophos
- 2026.0229 PortugalResíduos de Pesticidas em Feijão encarnado acephate
- 2026.0221 PortugalResíduos de Pesticidas em Feijão encarnado // pesticide residues in red beans acephatemethamidophos
- 2026.0219 PortugalResíduos de Pesticidas em Feijão encarnado // pesticide residues in red beans acephatechlorfenapyrmethamidophos
- 2025.0582 PortugalPresença do aditivo E223 Metabissulfito de Sódio na categoria 4.2.4.1 Preparados de frutas e produtos hortícolas, exceto compotas // Presence of sodium metabisulphite in mixture of vegetables from Brazil
- 2024.7561 PortugalPresença dos aditivos E 223(metabissulfito de sódio), E 211 (benzoato de sódio) e E 120 (carmim de cochonilha), não autorizados para na categoriana categoria de alimentos, 4.2.4.1 Preparados de frutas e legumes, exceto compotas // EN translation (unofficial): Presence of E 223 (sodium metabisulphite), E 211 (sodium benzoate) and E 120 (cochineal carmine), not authorised for the food category, 4.2.4.1 Fruit and vegetable preparations other than jam.
- 2024.3937 GermanyPesticide residues in cinnamon apples from Brazil Azoxystrobinbuprofezinchlorpyrifosfluazinam+2 more
- 2024.1598 Portugalpesticides in pitahaya form Brazil thiophanate-methyl
- 2023.8768 PortugalRejeição de Polpas de frutas com aditivo não autorizado (sulfitos) sulphite
- 2023.0604 PortugalUnauthorized additives in frozen fruit pulp (E 211, Sodium benzoate)
- 2022.0730 SpainEspecie vegetal no autorizada ( Malpighia emarginata) en smoothie de acai de Brasil. Unauthorized novel food ( Malpighia emarginata) in açai smoothie from Brazil
- 2022.0542 SpainNuevo alimento no autorizado (Plinia cauliflora) de Brasil. Unauthorised novel food (Plinia cauliflora) from Brazil
- 2021.4148 PortugalUnauthorised novel food pequi fruit from Brazil
- 2021.3600 SpainE 445 glycerol esters of wood rosins non authorised in coating of fresh mangoes from Brazil / Aditivos no autorizados en mangos frescos de Brasil
- 2021.3596 Spainunauthorised food additive ethoxylated alcohol in mangoes from Brazil
- 2021.3500 Spainunauthorised food additives formaldehyde and ethoxylated alcohol polydimethylsiloxane in the coating of mangoes from Brazil
- 2021.3499 Spainunauthorised food additives formaldehyde and ethoxylated alcohol polydimethylsiloxane in the coating of mangoes from Braz