China — Other Food Product / Mixed
China received 10 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Other Food Product / Mixed between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2025-Q1, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are cadmium, chlorpyriphos-ethyl, and dinotefuran. 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 8 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import other food product / mixed from China
- 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
- Destroyed 60%; held, final fate not recorded 20%; re-dispatched 10%; re-dispatched or destroyed 10%. 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 (2), Belgium (1), Croatia (1), of 10 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- September, January, March, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- cadmium (1), chlorpyrifos (1), colour E 171 - titanium dioxide unauthorised use (1), dinotefuran (1), lambda-cyhalothrin (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 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 3 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 2 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.8212 Composite Product ( Spicy plickled fish skin) from China- Health guarantee not filled out correctly Notified by Portugal. Re-dispatched.
- 2026.8051 Label / Documents mismatch Notified by Slovenia. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2026.3892 MISSING HEALTH CERTIFICATE in Frozen Products Notified by Portugal. Destroyed.
- 2025.8859 Cadmium (Cd) in fresh wild fungi (black truffles) from China Notified by Greece. Destroyed. Result 0,67+/-0,10 (limit 0,50 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2025.2316 Unauthorized novel food Chrysanthemum Extract (Chrysanthemum morifolium) Notified by Latvia. Destroyed.
- 2025.0251 Pesticides (cyhalothrin-lambda, chloroyrifos, tolfenpyrad, dinotefuran) in tea from China Notified by Sweden. Destroyed. Result 0,028 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyriphos-ethyldinotefuranlambda-cyhalothrintolfenpyrad
- 2025.0057 meat and milk from China presented as foods of plant origin (CHEDD) Notified by Italy. Destroyed.
- 2024.8411 Titanium dioxide in edible paint from China Notified by Belgium. Reached the market. Result 2900 (limit 0 mg/kg - ppm). colour E 171 - titanium dioxide
- 2024.3173 Bovine gelatin powder from China with incomplete health certificate Notified by Norway. Destroyed.
- 2024.0996 unauthorised novel food ingredients Hericium erinaceus (Lion’s mane), Inonotus obliquus (Chaga) and Cordyceps sp. from China Notified by Croatia.
- 2023.2439 Nuevo alimento no autorizado (Hemerocallis citrina) de China // Unauthorised novel food (Hemerocallis citrina) from China Notified by Spain.
- 2023.1586 Color Additives E110 and E102: absence of mandatory indications on the label in mango flavored syrup Notified by Italy.
- 2023.1585 Unhautorized additives E 407 , E 415 in Jelly Flavored Power- Notified by Italy.
- 2023.0014 Nuevo alimento no autorizado (extracto de Actinidia glaucophylla) de China // Non-authorised novel food (Actinidia glaucophylla extract) from China Notified by Spain.
- 2022.5309 Unauthorized novel food (sugar cane wax) from China Notified by Spain.
- 2022.5145 Unauthorized origin country of transglutaminase with lactose from China Notified by Spain.
- 2021.5762 Absence of official certificate /L-CYSTEINA / China Notified by Spain.
- 2022.1114 ethylene oxide in xanthan gum Notified by Bulgaria. Result 0.29±0.19 (limit 0.1 mg/kg - ppm). ethylene oxide
- 2022.0687 Salmonella en pimientón de China.. Salmonella spp in paprika powder from China. Notified by Spain. Result DETECTADO EN DOS SUBMUESTRAS DE 25 GRAMOS (limit NO DETECTADO EN 25 GRAMOS /g). Salmonella spp.
- 2022.0584 illegal import (bovine DNA) of and egg undeclared on instant noodles from China Notified by Italy. Result presenza dna bovino (limit vietata null). eggimport illegal
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 66 notifications since 2020 concerned other food product / mixed from China found after entering the EU — 25 alerts, 41 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%, company's own check 27%, at the EU border 11%, consumer complaint or illness 9%, other 3%. 11 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 9 | 8 | 1 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 9 | 1 | 8 |
| 2024 | 18 | 6 | 12 |
| 2025 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 2026 to date | 15 | 4 | 11 |
- 2026.8942 info: attentionUnauthorised novel food eagle fern (Pteridium aquilinum) from China Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result Pteridium aquilinum. novel food
- 2026.8138 info: attentionProdukt prawdopodobnie zawierający w składzie ibutamoren, sprzedawany przez Internet, pochodzący z Chin // A product likely containing ibutamoren, sold online and originating from China. Notified by Poland. Other, reached the market.
- 2026.7541 alertNo identificación de alergeno en fideos de estilo oriental comercializados en España // Allergen not declared on the Spanish label (milk) in Asian-style noodles from China via Germany Notified by Spain. Other, reached the market.
- 2026.7456 info: follow-upConsignment of various food items from China imported into the EU with possibly fraudulent documentation Notified by Netherlands. At the EU border, reached the market.
- 2026.7056 alertChloramphenicol in propolis powder from China, via Czech Republic Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,67. chloramphenicol
- 2026.6814 info: follow-upCarbendazim in rosebuds from China, via the Netherlands Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market, destroyed. Result 0,24 ± 0,12 (limit 0,1 mg/kg - ppm). carbendazim
- 2026.6522 info: follow-upConsignment ramen kits from China skipped veterinary controls in Border Control Post. Notified by Netherlands. At the EU border, reached the market.
- 2026.5752 info: attentionConsignment possibly subject to veterinary checks Notified by Netherlands. At the EU border, reached the market.
- 2026.5514 info: follow-upIllegal products from China which contains pork meat and rice Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check.
- 2026.5230 info: follow-upBacillus cereus in dried mushrooms from China, via France Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 3,5 E2 KBE. Bacillus cereuslabelling
Data and downloads
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