Hong Kong — Dietetic Foods, Food Supplements and Fortified Foods
Hong Kong received 2 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Dietetic Foods, Food Supplements and Fortified Foods between 2024-Q4 and 2026-Q2. The most-cited issue is tadalafil. The list below gives each of these 2 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 1 carries the laboratory result and 2 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
- What happened to rejected consignments, last 3 years
- Destroyed: 50%; Re-dispatched: 50%. Source: RASFF Window notification records.
Quarterly rejections, last 7 quarters
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| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q4 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.4454 Unvalidated and unnotified food supplements from Hong Kong Notified by Latvia. Re-dispatched.
- 2024.8946 Unauthorised substance tadalafil in food supplement from Hong Kong Notified by Belgium. Monitoring or surveillance sample, destroyed. Result detected. tadalafil
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 8 notifications since 2020 concerned dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods from Hong Kong found after entering the EU — 1 alerts, 7 information notifications. They are not part of the rejection figures or rates above, which measure border controls.
How they were found: other 62%, official control on the market 38%.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 to date | 4 | 0 | 4 |
- 2026.6606 info: attentionNiedozwolony składnik w suplemencie diety pochodzącym z Hong Kongu / Prohibited ingredient ibutamoren in a food supplement from Hong Kong Notified by Poland. Other, reached the market.
- 2026.5590 info: attentionNiedozwolony składnik w suplemencie diety/// Prohibited ingredient kava kava (Piper methysticum) in a food supplement Notified by Poland. Other, reached the market.
- 2026.5580 info: attentionNiedozwolony składnik w suplemencie diety // Prohibited ingredient - yohimbine in food supplement from Hong Kong Notified by Poland. Other, reached the market.
- 2026.2055 info: follow-upMosh and MOAH in vegan protein powders Notified by Switzerland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 30. mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH)mineral oil saturated hydrocarbons (MOSH)
- 2025.8712 info: attentionstwierdzenie substancji niedozwolonej johimbiny w suplemencie diety, kraj pochodzenia: Hongkong /// finding of prohibited substance yohimbine in a food supplement, country of origin: Hong Kong Notified by Poland. Other.
- 2021.2675 alertUnauthorized substances sibutramine a phenolphthalein in food supplement from Hong Kong Notified by Czechia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 15.9. phenolphthaleinsibutramine
- 2021.1051 info: follow-upUnauthorised novel food cannabidiol (CBD) oil on web shop from Hong Kong Notified by Belgium. Other, reached the market.
- 2020.0037 info: follow-upUnauthorized novel food Notified by Finland. Official control on the market, reached the market.
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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