Colombia — Fruits and Vegetables
Colombia received 26 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fruits and Vegetables between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 6 in 2025-Q1, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are acephate, cyprodinil, and methomyl. The list below gives the 20 most recent rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 20 carry the laboratory result and 11 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import fruits and vegetables from Colombia
- Chance a consignment is opened at the EU border
- 20% of consignments get identity and physical checks for pesticide residues (Reg. (EU) 2019/1793).
- If it is rejected
- Held, final fate not recorded 46%; destroyed 27%; re-dispatched or destroyed 23%; re-dispatched 4%. 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
- Netherlands (18), France (4), Spain (3), of 26 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- January, February, April, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- acephate (4), imidacloprid (3), chlorfenapyr (2), chlorothalonil (2), cyprodinil (2).
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 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 |
| 2024-Q4 | 3 |
| 2025-Q1 | 6 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 |
| 2026-Q2 | 6 |
| 2026-Q3 | 2 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical (Figs, Pomegranate, Mango, Dates) | 26 | 157,048 t | 7.0 | acephate |
| Citrus | 0 | — | — | — |
| Other Vegetables | 0 | — | — | — |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 26 | 159,260 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
- 2026.8371 High results for pesticides for granadilla from Colombia Notified by Switzerland. Destroyed. Result 0.2 (limit 0.03 mg/kg - ppm). flonicamid
- 2026.6348 Passion Fruit Colombia Pesticide Residue Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.022 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). trifloxystrobin
- 2026.4850 Ciprodinilo en Mango / Cyprodinil in mangoes Notified by Spain. Result 0,87 ± 0,44 (limit 0.02 mg/kg - ppm). cyprodinil
- 2026.4809 Passion Fruit Colombia Pesticide Residu Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.031 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). buprofezin
- 2026.4595 methomyl in passion fruit from Colombia Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched. Result 0.031 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). methomyl
- 2026.4246 Ciprodinilo en Mango de Colombia // Ciprodinil in Colombian mangoes Notified by Spain. Destroyed. Result 1.7 ± 0.9 (limit 0.02 mg/kg - ppm). cyprodinil
- 2026.3172 difenoconazole and pyrimethanil in passionfruit from Colombia Notified by Netherlands. Result 0.26 (limit 0.1 mg/kg - ppm). difenoconazolepyrimethanil
- 2026.2940 Procloraz en mangos de Colombia // Prochloraz in mangoes from Colombia Notified by Spain. Result 1.6mg (limit 0.03mg /kg). prochloraz
- 2026.1402 cyantraniliprole in Colombian passion fruit Notified by Netherlands. Result 0.12 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). cyantraniliprole
- 2026.1246 thiabendazole in Colombian Passion Fruit Notified by Netherlands. Result 0.024 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). thiabendazole
- 2025.9734 Passion Fruit Colombia Pesticide Residu Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.028 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorfenapyr
- 2025.5665 Pesticide residues in Granadilla from Colombia Notified by Netherlands. Destroyed. Result 0.021 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). acephatemethamidophos
- 2025.5517 Maracuya Colombia Pesticide Residue Notified by Netherlands. Destroyed. Result 0.19 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). acephate
- 2025.2570 Multiple pesticide residues in granadilla from Colombia Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.063 ± 0.032 (limit 0,010 mg/kg - ppm). acephateboscalid
- 2025.1702 Passion Fruit Colombia Pesticide Residu Notified by Netherlands. Destroyed. Result 0.028 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). acephate
- 2025.0728 Imidacloprid in passionfruit from Colombia Notified by Netherlands. Result 0.026 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). imidacloprid
- 2025.0413 Prochloraz in granadilla from Colombia Notified by France. Result 0.14±0.07 (limit 0,030 mg/kg - ppm). prochloraz
- 2025.0288 Passion Fruit Colombia Pesticide Residu Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.35 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorothalonil
- 2025.0287 Pesticide residues in Colombian Passionfruit Notified by Netherlands. Result 0.060 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). methomyl
- 2025.0067 chlorothalonil in Colombian passionfruit Notified by Netherlands. Result 0.058 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorothalonil
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 37 notifications since 2020 concerned fruits and vegetables from Colombia found after entering the EU — 16 alerts, 21 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 43%, at the EU border 43%, official control on the market 14%. 1 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2022 | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| 2023 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026 to date | 12 | 5 | 7 |
- 2026.9158 info: attentionExceedance of carbendazim in plantain, from Colombia via Belgium Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, reached the market, destroyed. Result 0,39 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). carbendazim
- 2026.5678 info: attentionCadmium on Mangosteens from Colombia Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0.030 (limit 0.020 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2026.4747 info: attentionCiprodinilo en mangos frescos de Colombia / Cyprodinil in fresh mangoes from Colombia Notified by Spain. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0,44 ± 0,22 (limit 0,02 mg/kg - ppm). cyprodinil
- 2026.4564 alertPesticides residues in Barbary fig from Colombia Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0,043 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). omethoate
- 2026.4554 alertCiprodinilo en Mango de Colombia // Cyprodinil in Colombian mangoes Notified by Spain. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.88 ± 0.44 (limit 0.02 mg/kg - ppm). cyprodinil
- 2026.4198 alertPesticides residues in Barbary fig from Colombia Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.028 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). cypermethrindithiocarbamatesomethoate
- 2026.3911 info: attentionCadmium in mangosteen from Colombia Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0.045 ± 0.008 (limit 0.020 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2026.3826 alertOmethoate and dithiocarbamates residues in Barbary fig from Colombia Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.041 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). dithiocarbamatesomethoate
- 2026.1582 info: attentionCadmium on Avocado from Colombia Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check. Result 0.053 (limit 0.05 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2026.1260 alertCadmium in Avocado from Colombia Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check. Result 0.12 (limit 0.05 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
Data and downloads
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