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. The list below gives each of these 20 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 8 carry the laboratory result and 15 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import fruits and vegetables from Brazil
- 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 58%; destroyed 33%; not stated 8%. 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 (10), Germany (1), Luxembourg (1), of 12 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- June, January, July, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- acephate (4), methamidophos (3), thiophanate-methyl (2), azoxystrobin (1), buprofezin (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.
Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 6 |
| 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 | — | — | thiophanate-methyl |
| Other Vegetables | 4 | — | — | acephate |
| Tropical (Figs, Pomegranate, Mango, Dates) | 2 | — | — | thiophanate-methyl |
| Citrus | 1 | — | — | demeton |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 7 | 588,874 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
- 2026.6632 E 211 - sodium benzoate unauthorised in frozen passion fruit and dragon fruit (pitahaya) pulps / Rejeição de Polpas de Frutas Congeladas com aditivo não autorizado (E211 Benzoato de ódio) Notified by Portugal. Destroyed.
- 2026.2060 Utilização de Aditivo não autorizado para revestimento da superfície dos frutos Notified by Portugal. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2026.1519 Fresh limes (citrus latifolia) from Brazil to Portugal contaminated with pesticide demeton Notified by Luxembourg. Result 0.066. demeton
- 2026.0232 Resíduos de Pesticidas em Feijão encarnado // pesticide residues in red beans Notified by Portugal. Reached the market, re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.033 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). acephatemethamidophos
- 2026.0229 Resíduos de Pesticidas em Feijão encarnado Notified by Portugal. Reached the market, re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.022 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). acephate
- 2026.0221 Resíduos de Pesticidas em Feijão encarnado // pesticide residues in red beans Notified by Portugal. Reached the market, re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.178 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). acephatemethamidophos
- 2026.0219 Resíduos de Pesticidas em Feijão encarnado // pesticide residues in red beans Notified by Portugal. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.041 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). acephatechlorfenapyrmethamidophos
- 2025.0582 Presença 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 Notified by Portugal. Reached the market, re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2024.7561 Presença 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. Notified by Portugal. Reached the market, destroyed.
- 2024.3937 Pesticide residues in cinnamon apples from Brazil Notified by Germany. Destroyed. Result 0,24 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). Azoxystrobinbuprofezinchlorpyrifosfluazinam+2 more
- 2024.1598 pesticides in pitahaya form Brazil Notified by Portugal. Destroyed. Result 4,6 (limit 0.1 mg/kg - ppm). thiophanate-methyl
- 2023.8768 Rejeição de Polpas de frutas com aditivo não autorizado (sulfitos) Notified by Portugal. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 5 (limit não autorizado na categoria 04.2.4 null). sulphite
- 2023.0604 Unauthorized additives in frozen fruit pulp (E 211, Sodium benzoate) Notified by Portugal.
- 2022.0730 Especie vegetal no autorizada ( Malpighia emarginata) en smoothie de acai de Brasil. Unauthorized novel food ( Malpighia emarginata) in açai smoothie from Brazil Notified by Spain.
- 2022.0542 Nuevo alimento no autorizado (Plinia cauliflora) de Brasil. Unauthorised novel food (Plinia cauliflora) from Brazil Notified by Spain.
- 2021.4148 Unauthorised novel food pequi fruit from Brazil Notified by Portugal.
- 2021.3600 E 445 glycerol esters of wood rosins non authorised in coating of fresh mangoes from Brazil / Aditivos no autorizados en mangos frescos de Brasil Notified by Spain. Destroyed.
- 2021.3596 unauthorised food additive ethoxylated alcohol in mangoes from Brazil Notified by Spain. Destroyed.
- 2021.3500 unauthorised food additives formaldehyde and ethoxylated alcohol polydimethylsiloxane in the coating of mangoes from Brazil Notified by Spain. Destroyed.
- 2021.3499 unauthorised food additives formaldehyde and ethoxylated alcohol polydimethylsiloxane in the coating of mangoes from Braz Notified by Spain. Destroyed.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 55 notifications since 2020 concerned fruits and vegetables from Brazil found after entering the EU — 24 alerts, 31 information notifications. They are not part of the rejection figures or rates above, which measure border controls.
How they were found: company's own check 48%, official control on the market 41%, at the EU border 9%, monitoring or surveillance sample 2%. 17 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2024 | 12 | 5 | 7 |
| 2025 | 15 | 6 | 9 |
| 2026 to date | 12 | 2 | 10 |
- 2026.9436 info: attentionAcetamiprid in fresh red table grapes Notified by Netherlands. acetamiprid
- 2026.9370 info: attentionPesticide residues in limes from Brazil Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 0.03 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorfenapyrchlorpyrifosprofenofos
- 2026.9002 info: follow-upstwierdzenie przekroczenia NDP pestycydu pn. chloropiryfos w limonkach, kraj pochodzenia: Brazylia ////Exceedance of the MRL for the pesticide chlorpyrifos in limes; country of origin: Brazil. Notified by Poland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,050 ± 0,025 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2026.8958 info: attentiondiafenthiuron in papayas from Brazil Notified by Italy. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,027 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). diafenthiuron
- 2026.8713 info: attentionprzekroczenie NDP pestycydu dimetoatu w limonkach z Brazylii /// exceedance of the MRL for the pesticide dimethoate in limes from Brazil Notified by Poland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,066 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). dimethoate
- 2026.7984 alertChlorpyriphos detected in limes from Brazil Notified by France. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 0,019 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2026.7825 info: attentionGuava contaminated with the pesticide chlorpyrifos from Brazil Notified by Austria. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,052 +/- 0,026. chlorpyrifos
- 2026.5842 info: attentionChlorpyrifos on Limes from Brazil Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 0.029 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2026.5649 info: attentionStwierdzenie przekroczenia NDP dla pozostałości pestycydu – diflubenzuronu w limonce pochodzącej z Brazylii // exceeding the MRL for pesticide residues – diflubenzuron in lime from Brazil Notified by Poland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,072 ± 0,036 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). diflubenzuron
- 2026.4060 alertUnapproved substance carbofuran in lime from Brazil via the Netherlands Notified by Belgium. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,023 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). carbofuran
Data and downloads
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