Brazil — Meat and Meat Products (Other Than Poultry) — Beef
Brazil received 6 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Beef, part of Meat and Meat Products (Other Than Poultry) between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2024-Q2, with the trend newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing and Escherichia coli. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 4.3 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Brazil over the last 3 years. The list below gives each of these 11 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 5 carry the laboratory result and 1 says what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import beef 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).
- Rejections against import volume
- On average, 1 border rejection per 28,612 tonnes imported into the EU over the last 3 years (EU import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- If it is rejected
- Held, final fate not recorded 83%; destroyed 17%. 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
- Spain (6), of 6 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Test for before shipping
- escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing (2), escherichia coli (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
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| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 2 |
| 2024-Q2 | 3 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.8439 Deterioration due to vacuum seel loss in beef from Brazil // Deterioro por pérdida del sellado al vacío en carne de vacuno de Brasil Notified by Spain. Destroyed.
- 2024.4812 Ruptura de la cadena de frío en carne de vacuno de Brasil. Cold chain break in beef from Brazil. Notified by Spain.
- 2024.4498 E. coli STEC en carne de vacuno de Brasil. // E. coli STEC in beef from Brazil. Notified by Spain. Result Detección presuntiva E coli STEC en 25 g, detección gen de virulencia stx1 y eae, detecci… Escherichia coli
- 2024.3842 E. Coli STEC en carne de vacuno de Brasil. E. Coli STEC in beef from Brazil. Notified by Spain. Result DETECTADO (limit Ausencia /25g). Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
- 2024.2248 E. Coli STEC en carne de vacuno de Brasil. E. Coli STEC in beef from Brazil. Notified by Spain. Result DETECTED (limit Undetected /25g). Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
- 2024.1466 Ruptura de la cadena de frío en carne de vacuno de Brasil. Breakage of the cold chain in beef from Brazil. Notified by Spain.
- 2022.4397 RUPTURA DE LA CADENA DE FRÍO, CARNE DE VACUNO REFRIGERADA, BRASIL/ COLD CHAIN BREACH, CHILLED BEEF MEAT, BRAZIL. Notified by Spain.
- 2021.1005 Inadequate material hygiene in beef Notified by Netherlands.
- 2021.0678 shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli (stx2+ /25g) in frozen beef tenderloins from Brazil Notified by Netherlands. Result Stx2 aangetoond in 25 g. Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
- 2020.1791 Escherichia coli in chilled boneless beef from Brazil Notified by Germany. Result Nachweis von E.Coli 0183:H18 und E.Coli 039:H49 in je 25gr der Probe 20-L-02600-1-1-4. Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
- 2018.2800 food - border control - consignment detained - border rejection notification - frozen bonelees beef- (020230) - Escherichia coli-shigatoxin-producing - brazil Notified by Italy. Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 15 notifications since 2020 concerned beef from Brazil found after entering the EU — 2 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 67%, at the EU border 27%, company's own check 7%.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- 2025.3077 info: attentionSTEC present in beef (bos taurus) from Brazil Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result present (limit not present /25g). Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
- 2025.3037 info: attention Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing in Beef cuts from Brazil Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result Present (limit Absent /25g). Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
- 2025.1755 info: attentionSTEC present in beef (bos taurus) from Brazil Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result present (limit not present /25g). Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
- 2025.1635 info: attentionSTEC present in beef (Bos Taurus) from Brazil Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result present (limit not present /25g). Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
- 2025.1591 info: follow-upSTEC present in beef (Bos Taurus) from Brazil Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result Present (limit Not present /25g). Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
- 2024.9504 info: attentionSTEC in frozen beef Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result Present (limit Not present /25g). Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
- 2024.7034 info: attentionEHEC/STEC in beef (meat) from Brazil Notified by Denmark. At the EU border, reached the market. Result Nachweis E.coli Ont: H16. Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
- 2024.4860 info: attentionListeria monocytogenes in beef tenderloin from Brazil Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check. Result Present (limit Not present /25g). Listeria monocytogenes
- 2023.3984 info: attentionPresencia de E.coli STEC en carne de vacuno de Brasil. Presence of E. coli STEC / 25 g in frozen beef from Brasil // Notified by Spain. At the EU border, not on the market. Result DETECTADO (limit Ausencia /25g). e.coli
- 2022.3905 alertSTEC in beef from Brazil Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result Present (limit Absent /25g). Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
Data and downloads
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