Kenya — Fruits and Vegetables — Other
Kenya received 2 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Other, part of Fruits and Vegetables between 2022-Q1 and 2024-Q4. Volume is newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are hexaconazole, bupirimate, and famoxadone. 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 1 says what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
- What happened to rejected consignments, last 3 years
- Held, final fate not recorded: 100%. About 0 tonnes in total. Source: RASFF Window notification records.
Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters
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| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2022-Q1 | 0 |
| 2022-Q2 | 0 |
| 2022-Q3 | 0 |
| 2022-Q4 | 0 |
| 2023-Q1 | 0 |
| 2023-Q2 | 0 |
| 2023-Q3 | 0 |
| 2023-Q4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2024.7363 hexaconazole in pepers from Kenya Notified by Netherlands. Result 0.045 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). hexaconazole
- 2024.6435 bupirimate and famoxadone in haricots verts from Kenya Notified by Netherlands. Result 0.032 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). bupirimatefamoxadone
- 2020.3616 Dimethoate exceeds MRL Notified by United Kingdom. Destroyed. Result 0.03 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). dimethoate
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 11 notifications since 2020 concerned other from Kenya found after entering the EU — 4 alerts, 7 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 73%, official control on the market 18%, consumer complaint or illness 9%. 1 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 to date | 1 | 1 | 0 |
- 2026.2816 alertListeria monocytogenes in Baby Corn from Kenya Notified by Norway. Company's own check, reached the market. Listeria monocytogenes
- 2025.8483 info: attentionPesticides in snow peas Notified by France. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 1,3 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). dimethomorph
- 2024.7769 info: attentionPesticide residues of chlorothalonil in sugar snap peas from Kenya via NL Notified by Denmark. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 0,042 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorothalonil
- 2024.0272 info: attentionCaptan in sugar snap peas from Kenya, via the Netherlands Notified by Germany. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 0,13 (limit 0,03 mg/kg - ppm). captan
- 2023.8590 alertChlorthalonil and Chlorpyrifos-ethyl in mangetout from Kenya Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, reached the market. Result Chlorpyrifos-ethyl 0.017 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). pesticide residues
- 2023.5643 info: attentionChlorothalonil in sugar snap peas from Kenya via the Netherlands Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,20 +/- 0,10 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorothalonil
- 2023.3120 alertMangetout from Kenya with Chlorpyrifos-ethyl and Metalaxyl Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 0.066 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyriphos-ethylmetalaxyl
- 2023.2907 info: attentionUnauthorised substance Chlorpyrifos in Mangetout - Snow peas from Kenya Notified by Belgium. Company's own check, reached the market, destroyed. Result 0.014 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2023.2896 info: attentionChlorothalonil in thyme from Kenya, via the Netherlands Notified by Czechia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,067 (limit 0,02 mg/kg - ppm). chlorothalonil
- 2022.6823 alertCarbendazim and Chlorpyrifos in sugarsnaps from Kenia Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 0.63 (limit 0.20 mg/kg - ppm). carbendazimchlorpyrifos
Data and downloads
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