Egypt — Fruits and Vegetables — Other Vegetables
Egypt received 7 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Other Vegetables, part of Fruits and Vegetables between 2023-Q3 and 2026-Q2. Volume peaked at 3 in 2024-Q2, with the trend newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are chlorpyrifos, imidacloprid, and fenamiphos. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 4.5 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Egypt over the last 3 years. The list below gives each of these 10 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 10 carry the laboratory result and 6 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import other vegetables from Egypt
Lower risk. Egypt ranks 8th of 8 origins shipping other vegetables to the EU on border rejections per $1 billion of EU imports, at 4.5 — the lowest of them.
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- 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 276,489 tonnes imported into the EU over the last 3 years; the lowest rejection rate of 7 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (EU import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- If it is rejected
- Destroyed 71%; re-dispatched or destroyed 14%; held, final fate not recorded 14%. 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
- Croatia (5), Greece (2), of 7 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Test for before shipping
- chlorpyrifos (3), imidacloprid (2), fenamiphos (1), linuron (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-Q3 | 0 |
| 2023-Q4 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 3 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.3930 Chlorpyrifos in tomatoes from Egypt Notified by Greece. Result 0.20 ± 0.10 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2026.1508 Fenamiphos in potatoes from Egypt Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,027. fenamiphos
- 2026.1485 Imidacloprid in potatoes from Egypt Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,033. imidacloprid
- 2024.3905 Pesticide residues of imidacloprid in potatoes from Egypt Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,043. imidacloprid
- 2024.3387 Linuron in fresh carrots Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,062. linuron
- 2024.3331 Chlorpyrifos in beans with pods from Egypt Notified by Greece. Destroyed. Result 0.024 ± 0.012 (95%) (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2023.8507 Chlorpyrifos in white kidney beans from Egypt Notified by Croatia. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,037. chlorpyrifos
- 2023.2649 Residues of the unauthorised pesticide Propiconazole in Frozen Broccoli Un-calibrated from Egypt Notified by Cyprus. Result 0.023 ± 0.012 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). propiconazole
- 2022.6703 Malathion in Split Broad Beans from Egypt Notified by Cyprus. Result 0.044 ± 0.022 (limit 0.02 mg/kg - ppm). malathion
- 2021.1352 Residue of pesticide Fosthiazate in baby potatoes Notified by Croatia. Result 0,050 (limit 0,02 mg/kg - ppm). fosthiazate
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 38 notifications since 2020 concerned other vegetables from Egypt found after entering the EU — 9 alerts, 29 information notifications. They are not part of the rejection figures or rates above, which measure border controls.
How they were found: at the EU border 37%, company's own check 32%, official control on the market 29%, monitoring or surveillance sample 3%. 7 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 2023 | 10 | 3 | 7 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| 2025 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026 to date | 6 | 1 | 5 |
- 2026.9241 info: attentionExceeded MRL pesticide MALATHION in DRIED WHITE BEANS from EGYPT / Depasire limita la pesticidul MALATHION in FASOLE ALBA USCATA din EGIPT. Notified by Romania. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.710 +/- 0.355 (limit 0.02 mg/kg - ppm). malathion
- 2026.5488 info: attentionChlorpyrifos and Chlorfenapyr above legal limits in dried tomatoes from Egypt Notified by Italy. At the EU border, not on the market. Result 0.17 +/- 0.06 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorfenapyrchlorpyrifos
- 2026.5307 info: attentionChlorpyrifos ethyl and Chlorfenapyr in dried tomatoes Notified by Italy. At the EU border. Result 0,48 mg/Kg (± 0,24 mg/kg). (limit LMR di 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorfenapyrchlorpyrifos
- 2026.4749 alertcadusafos in carrots from Egypt Notified by Slovenia. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.058 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). cadusafos
- 2026.1782 info: attentionChlorate in frozen broccoli from Egypt Notified by Belgium. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 3,7 (limit 0,4 mg/kg - ppm). chlorate
- 2026.1645 info: attentionPesticides above legal limits in dried tomatoes from Egypt Notified by Italy. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.034 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorfenapyrchlorpyrifos
- 2025.8991 info: follow-upMRL exceedance for phosphonic acid in beans Notified by France. Company's own check, re-dispatched. Result 5,2. fosetyl and phosphonates
- 2025.7412 info: follow-upforeign object: plastic particles in organic white beans, from Egypt Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, reached the market, re-dispatched.
- 2025.7394 info: attentionmetallic foreign body in onion bulbs of Egyptian origin Notified by France. Company's own check, reached the market.
- 2025.1972 info: attentionResidues of unauthorized pesticide Chlorpyrifos in fresh tomatoes from Egypt Notified by Cyprus. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.14± (0.070) (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
Data and downloads
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