Burkina Faso — Fruits and Vegetables
Burkina Faso received 6 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q4 and 2026-Q1. Volume peaked at 3 in 2026-Q1. The most-cited issues are chlorpyrifos, profenofos, and dimethoate. The list below gives each of these 6 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 6 carry the laboratory result and 6 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import fruits and vegetables from Burkina Faso
- Chance a consignment is opened at the EU border
- 30% of consignments get identity and physical checks for pesticide residues (Reg. (EU) 2019/1793).
- If it is rejected
- Destroyed 50%; re-dispatched or destroyed 50% (7 tonnes in all). 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
- Belgium (6), of 6 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Test for before shipping
- chlorpyrifos (2), dimethoate (2), profenofos (2), flonicamid (1), metalaxyl (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 6 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q4 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 3 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other Vegetables | 4 | — | — | dimethoate |
| Other | 2 | — | — | profenofos |
"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
- 2026.2747 Pesticides residues in aubergines from Burkina Faso Notified by Belgium. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.96 (limit 0.5 mg/kg - ppm). flonicamid
- 2026.2232 Pesticides residues in aubergines from Burkina Faso Notified by Belgium. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.3 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifosprofenofos
- 2026.1102 Pesticides residues in aubergines from Burkina Faso Notified by Belgium. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.041 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). dimethoateomethoate
- 2025.10492 Pesticide residues (chlorpyrifos) in egg plants from Burkina Faso. Notified by Belgium. Destroyed. Result 0.011 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2025.0091 Pesticides residues in aubergine from Burkina Faso Notified by Belgium. Destroyed. Result 0,013 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). dimethoatemetalaxyl
- 2024.8251 Profenofos residues in egg plants from Burkina Fasa Notified by Belgium. Destroyed. Result 0.043 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). profenofos
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 4 notifications since 2020 concerned fruits and vegetables from Burkina Faso found after entering the EU — 4 alerts. They are not part of the rejection figures or rates above, which measure border controls.
How they were found: at the EU border 100%.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 to date | 2 | 2 |
- 2026.1254 alertPesticides residues in aubergines from Burkina Faso Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.15 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2026.0916 alertPesticides residues in aubergines from Burkina Faso Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.03 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2023.7864 alertPesticides residues in aubergines from Burkina Faso Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.032 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). dimethoateomethoate
- 2023.7861 alertPesticides residues in aubergines from Burkina Faso Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.14 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). dimethoateomethoate
Data and downloads
Download all 10 entries (CSV) — every notification behind this page, border rejections and those found on the market, with how each was found and what was done.
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