Iraq — Fruits and Vegetables
Iraq received 3 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q2 and 2026-Q3. Volume is roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issue is cadmium. The list below gives each of these 3 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 3 carry 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: 33%; Re-dispatched: 33%; Held, final fate not recorded: 33%. Source: RASFF Window notification records.
Quarterly rejections, last 10 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 3 | — | — | cadmium |
"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
- 2026.6343 Cadmium (Cd) in fresh wild fungi (black truffles) higher than the permitted limit Notified by Greece. Result 1,03+/-0,15 (limit 0,50 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2025.2369 Cadmium in black truffles from Iraq Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,600. cadmium
- 2024.4259 Cadmium in truffles from Iraq Notified by Croatia. Re-dispatched. Result 0,655 (limit 0,5 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
Data and downloads
Download all 3 entries (CSV) — every notification behind this page, with how each was found and what was done.
The file holds entries up to 2026-07-16. To get new ones for Iraq by email, watch Iraq.