India — Crustaceans and Products Thereof
India received 17 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Crustaceans and Products Thereof between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2025-Q3, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are nitrofuran (metabolite) furazolidone (AOZ), nitrofuran (metabolite) nitrofurazone (SEM), and furazolidon. The list below gives each of these 20 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 17 carry the laboratory result and 11 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import crustaceans and products thereof from India
- 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
- Re-dispatched or destroyed 53%; held, final fate not recorded 35%; destroyed 12%. 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), Germany (3), Netherlands (3), of 17 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- April, March, July, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- nitrofuran (metabolite) furazolidone (aoz) (6), nitrofuran (metabolite) nitrofurazone (sem) (3), chloramphenicol (1), furazolidon (1), nitrofuran (metabolite) furaltadone (amoz) (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 | 2 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 |
| 2025-Q3 | 3 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 |
| 2026-Q1 | 3 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.5865 Semikarbazyd (SEM) w krewetkach mrożonych z Indii // Semicarbazide (SEM) in frozen prawns from India Notified by Poland. Destroyed. Result 0,84 (limit RPA=0,5 µg/kg - ppb). nitrofuran (metabolite) nitrofurazone (SEM)
- 2026.2413 Rotten odor from frozen shrimps from India. Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2026.2123 Chloramphenicol in White Tiger shrimps from India Notified by Germany. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,23. chloramphenicol
- 2026.0960 Rotten odor from frozen shrimps from India. Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2025.9911 Nitrofurans ((SEM) in shrimps from India Notified by Belgium. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result > ccAlpha & > RPA (limit 0,5 µg/kg - ppb). nitrofuran (metabolite) nitrofurazone (SEM)
- 2025.7528 Nitrofurans in frozen shrimps from India Notified by Ireland. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.050. nitrofuran metabolite aminoguanidine (AGN)
- 2025.7398 Semikarbazyd (SEM) w krewetkach mrożonych z Indii Notified by Poland. Destroyed. Result 0,53 (limit RPA=0,5 μg/kg µg/kg - ppb). nitrofuran (metabolite) nitrofurazone (SEM)
- 2025.7137 Nitrofurans (NPAOZ) in frozen shrimps from India Notified by Ireland. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.69 (limit 0.50 µg/kg - ppb). nitrofuran (metabolite) furazolidone (AOZ)
- 2025.6043 rotura de cadena de frío en langostino de la India / cold chain breakdown in prawns from India Notified by Spain.
- 2025.2622 Nitrofurans (AOZ) in shrimps from India Notified by Belgium. Result > ccAlpha & > RPA (limit 0,5 µg/kg - ppb). nitrofuran (metabolite) furazolidone (AOZ)
- 2025.2394 Furazolidon (aoz) in Shrimp India Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,71 (limit 0,5 µg/kg - ppb). furazolidon
- 2025.0192 Nitrofurans (AMOZ) in shrimp from India Notified by Belgium. Result 1,55 (original) and 0,63 (counter-analysis) (limit 0,5 µg/kg - ppb). nitrofuran (metabolite) furaltadone (AMOZ)
- 2024.9090 Nitrofuran metabolite furazolidone in frozen prawns from India Notified by Germany. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 1,54. nitrofuran (metabolite) furazolidone (AOZ)
- 2024.5678 Nitrofuran (AOZ) in raw shrimps from India Notified by Germany. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,7 (limit 0,66 ccalpha µg/kg - ppb). nitrofuran (metabolite) furazolidone (AOZ)
- 2024.5381 Nitrofurans (AOZ) in shrimp from India Notified by Belgium. Result >0,5 (limit 0,5 µg/kg - ppb). nitrofuran (metabolite) furazolidone (AOZ)
- 2024.3111 Nitrofurans (AOZ) in shrimps from India Notified by Belgium. Result >0,5 (limit 0,5 µg/kg - ppb). nitrofuran (metabolite) furazolidone (AOZ)
- 2024.1212 Sulphite not mentioned as allergen on label of shrimps from India Notified by Belgium. Result 19 ; 20,6 and 20,9 for the analysis ; 21,1 ; 27,4 and 42,7 for the counter analysis (limi… sulphite
- 2023.4117 nitrofurans (AOZ) in shrimps from India Notified by Belgium. Result >0,5 (limit 0,5 µg/kg - ppb). nitrofuran (metabolite) furazolidone (AOZ)
- 2023.3348 furazolidon (aoz) in shrimps from India Notified by Netherlands. Result 7,8 (limit 0,15 µg/kg - ppb). furazolidon
- 2023.2797 nitrofurans (AOZ) in shrimps from India Notified by Belgium. Result >0,5 (limit 0,5 µg/kg - ppb). nitrofuran (metabolite) furazolidone (AOZ)
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 31 notifications since 2020 concerned crustaceans and products thereof from India found after entering the EU — 7 alerts, 24 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 42%, at the EU border 32%, official control on the market 19%, consumer complaint or illness 3%, monitoring or surveillance sample 3%. 8 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2023 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026 to date | 3 | 2 | 1 |
- 2026.4028 alertDetection of Vibrio vulnificus in frozen raw wild-caught prawns Notified by France. Company's own check, reached the market. Vibrio vulnificus
- 2026.2472 alertMalachite green in shrimp from India Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market. Result > CCalpha & > RPA (limit 0,5 µg/kg - ppb). leucomalachite green
- 2026.0790 info: attentioncorpo estraneo (vetro) in code di gambero IQF, origine materia prima India//foreign body (glass) in IQF shrimp tails, raw material from India Notified by Italy. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market.
- 2025.9205 info: follow-up3-amino-2-oxazolidinone (AOZ) in shrimp from India, via Belgium Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0.52. nitrofuran (metabolite) furazolidone (AOZ)
- 2025.7903 info: attentionPresenza di Salmonella spp in Code di gamberone monocero scottate congelate IQF/Presence of Salmonella spp in IQF frozen lightly cooked prawn tails from India Notified by Italy. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result PRESENTE (limit Assenza /25g). Salmonella spp.
- 2025.5312 info: attentionHigh content of sulphite in frozen blanched headless shrimps IQF (Metapenaeus monoceros) from India Notified by Italy. At the EU border. Result 229 ± 19 (limit 150 mg/kg - ppm). sulphite
- 2025.5004 info: attentionDetection of Vibrio in prawns Notified by France. Company's own check. Result detected. Vibrio parahaemolyticusVibrio vulnificus
- 2025.4388 info: attentionVibrio parahaemolyticus in gamberi dall'India/Vibrio parahaemolyticus in shrimp from India Notified by Italy. At the EU border, re-dispatched. Result rilevato (limit non rilevato /g). Vibrio parahaemolyticus
- 2025.3979 info: attentionPresence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in shelled shrimps from India /// Prezenta Vibrio parahaemolyticus in creveti decorticati origine India Notified by Romania. Company's own check. Result detected (limit undetected /25g). Vibrio parahaemolyticus
- 2025.3520 info: attentionLeucomalachite green in Black Tiger Shrimps from India Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 4,0 (limit 0,5 µg/kg - ppb). leucomalachite green
Data and downloads
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