Kenya — Fruits and Vegetables — Other Vegetables

Kenya received 76 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Other Vegetables, part of Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 13 in 2025-Q1, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are hexaconazole, bifenthrin, and flutriafol. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 542.3 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Kenya over the last 3 years. The list below gives the 20 most recent rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 20 carry the laboratory result and 20 say what happened to the consignment.

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Key figures

If you import other vegetables from Kenya

Above the median. Kenya ranks 4th of 8 origins shipping other vegetables to the EU on border rejections per $1 billion of EU imports, at 542.3 — above 57% of them.

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Chance a consignment is opened at the EU border: 10% of consignments get identity and physical checks for pesticide residues (Reg. (EU) 2019/1793).
Rejections against import volume: On average, 1 border rejection per 495 tonnes imported into the EU over the last 3 years; the highest rejection rate of 7 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (EU import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
Size of a rejected lot: Rejected lots are typically 0.8 t (median of 69 lot weights recorded at the border). Across origins of this product they run from 0.1 t (Sri Lanka) to 4.7 t (Turkey), so compare the rate per tonne, not the count of rejections.
If it is rejected: Destroyed 59%; re-dispatched or destroyed 33%; held, final fate not recorded 8%. 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: France (58), Netherlands (21), of 79 border rejections in the last 3 years.
Riskiest months: July, April, December, by rejections since 2020.
Test for before shipping: acephate (32), methamidophos (18), hexaconazole (10), bifenthrin (9), chlorpyrifos (5).

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
2024-Q1	5
2024-Q2	8
2024-Q3	7
2024-Q4	11
2025-Q1	13
2025-Q2	3
2025-Q3	9
2025-Q4	5
2026-Q1	3
2026-Q2	6
2026-Q3	5
2026-Q4	1

Recent rejections

2026.9194 2026-10-16 Bifenthrin in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.028 ± 0.014 (limit 0.010 mg/kg - ppm). bifenthrin
2026.7325 2026-08-18 Flutriafole in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.28 ± 0.14 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). flutriafol
2026.6857 2026-07-31 Carbendazim in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.17 ± 0.09 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). carbendazim
2026.6853 2026-07-31 Hexaconazole in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.032 ± 0.016 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). hexaconazole
2026.6832 2026-07-31 Flutriafole in beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,032 ± 0,016 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). flutriafol
2026.6362 2026-07-16 Indoxacarbe in beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,029 ± 0,015 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). indoxacarb
2026.5309 2026-06-16 Profenofos in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.062 ± 0.031 mg/kg (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). profenofos
2026.4585 2026-05-26 Penconazole in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.032 ± 0.016 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). penconazole
2026.4137 2026-05-12 Beans Kenya Pesticide Residue Notified by Netherlands. Destroyed. Result 0.047 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). flutriafol
2026.4075 2026-05-08 Beans Kenya Pesticide Residue Notified by Netherlands. Destroyed. Result 0.027 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). bifenthrin
2026.4045 2026-05-08 Beans Kenya Pesticide Residue Notified by Netherlands. Destroyed. Result 0.022 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). flutriafol
2026.2839 2026-04-02 Bifenthrin in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.028 ± 0.014 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). bifenthrin
2026.1581 2026-02-26 Acephate and Methamidophos in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.053 ± 0.027 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). acephatemethamidophos
2026.1537 2026-02-24 Hexaconazole in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.081 ± 0.041 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). hexaconazole
2026.0421 2026-01-19 Hexaconazole in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.083 ± 0.042 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). hexaconazole
2025.10440 2025-12-29 Hexaconazole in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Destroyed. Result 0.025 ± 0.013 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). hexaconazole
2025.10182 2025-12-18 Bifenthrin in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.62 ± 0.31 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). bifenthrin
2025.8177 2025-10-23 Hexaconazole in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.055 ± 0.028 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). hexaconazole
2025.7973 2025-10-16 Dimethomorph in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.035 ± 0.018 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). dimethomorph
2025.7719 2025-10-09 Hexaconazole in green beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.037 ± 0.019 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). hexaconazole

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