Brazil — Meat and Meat Products (Other Than Poultry)
Brazil received 18 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Meat and Meat Products (Other Than Poultry) between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are Escherichia coli, Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing, and Salmonella Drogana. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 3.5 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Brazil over the last 3 years. The list below gives each of these 20 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 6 carry the laboratory result and 4 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import meat and meat products (other than poultry) 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
- Held, final fate not recorded 78%; re-dispatched or destroyed 17%; destroyed 6%. 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
- Italy (10), Spain (7), Netherlands (1), of 18 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- June, February, August, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing (2), salmonella (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 |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 2 |
| 2024-Q2 | 4 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 |
| 2026-Q3 | 5 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beef | 6 | 28,612 t | 4.3 | Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing |
| Other | 12 | — | — | Salmonella spp |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 6 | 28,612 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
- 2026.8716 Salmonella Drogana in poultry meat from Brazil Notified by Italy. Result presence. Salmonella Drogana
- 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.
- 2026.7507 Bovine Frozen meat in poor state of preservation from Brazil Notified by Italy.
- 2026.7236 Bovine Frozen meat in poor state of preservation from Brazil Notified by Italy.
- 2026.6883 poor state of preservation of bovine frozen meat from Brazil Notified by Italy.
- 2026.6882 poor state of preservation of bovine frozen meat from Brazil Notified by Italy.
- 2026.4817 Bovine Frozen meat in poor state of preservation from Brazil Notified by Italy.
- 2026.4814 Bovine frozen meat from Brazil in poor state of preservation Notified by Italy.
- 2026.4601 Bovine Frozen meat in poor state of preservation from Brazil Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2026.1674 carne dal Brasile in cattivo stato di conservazione/meat from Brazil in poor condition Notified by Italy.
- 2025.3452 Undeclared meat products originated from unauthorized establishments inside a packaging compliant with documents reported an approved establishment/Prodotti a base di carne non dichiarati provenienti da stabilimenti non autorizzati, all'interno di un imballaggio conforme ai documenti riportati in uno stabilimento approvato Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2025.2923 Hygiene failure and sensory check failure bovine meat Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or 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.
- 2024.4807 Salmonella enterica ser. Typhimurium in frozen chicken half breasts from Brazil Notified by Spain. Result Presence of Salmonella Typhimurium (limit Absence /25g). Salmonella spp
- 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.
- 2023.5005 E. coli STEC en carne de vacuno de Brasil. E.coli STEC in frozen bovine meat from Brazil. Notified by Spain. Result Detección de Escherichia coli STEC Se detecta en 25 g. Escherichia coli
- 2022.6307 Ruptura de la cadena de frío en carne de ternera congelada de Brasil / Poor temperature control for frozen bovine meat from Brazil Notified by Spain.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 30 notifications since 2020 concerned meat and meat products (other than poultry) from Brazil found after entering the EU — 3 alerts, 27 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 50%, at the EU border 27%, company's own check 13%, other 10%.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2024 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2025 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- 2025.9134 info: attentionsuspicion of frozen meat of treated animals from Brazil //Sospecha de carne procedente de animales tratados de Brasil Notified by Spain. Other.
- 2025.8939 info: follow-upsuspicion of frozen meat from treated animals from Brazil Notified by Italy. Other, reached the market.
- 2025.8932 info: follow-upsuspicion of frozen meat from treated animals from Brazil Notified by Netherlands. Other, reached the market.
- 2025.6155 info: follow-upSTEC in Bos Taurus from Brazil Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result detected (limit not detected /25g). Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
- 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
- 2025.1832 info: attentionSTEC stx1 and stx2 on Bos taurus 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
Data and downloads
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