Kenya — Fruits and Vegetables
Kenya received 92 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 13 in 2024-Q4, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are flutriafol, bifenthrin, and lambda-cyhalothrin. 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 19 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import fruits and vegetables from Kenya
- Chance a consignment is opened at the EU border
- 20% of consignments get identity and physical checks for pesticide residues (Reg. (EU) 2019/1793).
- If it is rejected
- Destroyed 62%; re-dispatched or destroyed 28%; held, final fate not recorded 10%. 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 (59), Netherlands (27), Italy (3), of 97 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- March, July, August, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- acephate (35), methamidophos (21), hexaconazole (12), bifenthrin (9), chlorfenapyr (8).
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
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 8 |
| 2024-Q2 | 9 |
| 2024-Q3 | 9 |
| 2024-Q4 | 13 |
| 2025-Q1 | 13 |
| 2025-Q2 | 3 |
| 2025-Q3 | 10 |
| 2025-Q4 | 5 |
| 2026-Q1 | 5 |
| 2026-Q2 | 7 |
| 2026-Q3 | 8 |
| 2026-Q4 | 2 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peppers & Chilies | 16 | 198 t | 1,129 | lambda-cyhalothrin |
| Other Vegetables | 79 | 495 t | 542.3 | acephate |
| Other | 2 | — | — | hexaconazole |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 95 | 445 t |
"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
- 2026.9194 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
- 2026.8956 High results for pesticides for Peppers (other than sweet) (Capsicum spp.) from Kenya Notified by Switzerland. Destroyed. Result 0.031 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). indoxacarblambda-cyhalothrinthiamethoxam
- 2026.7449 High results for pesticides for Peppers (Capsicum) from Kenya Notified by Switzerland. Destroyed. Result 0,022 (limit 0,09 mg/kg - ppm). acetamipridchlorfenapyrfenpyroximatelambda-cyhalothrin
- 2026.7325 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
- 2026.7300 Acetamiprid in bell peppers/chillies Notified by Sweden. Destroyed. Result 0,26 (limit 0,09 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2026.6899 Chlorpyrifos en pimientos de Kenia // Chlorpyrifos in peppers from Kenya Notified by Spain. Result Clorpirifos 0.084 ± 0,042 (limit 0.01mg /kg). chlorpyrifos
- 2026.6857 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 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 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 Indoxacarbe in beans from Kenya Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,029 ± 0,015 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). indoxacarb
- 2026.5661 Clothianidin - Thiamethoxam and Lambda-Cyhalothrin above legal limits in fresh peppers (capsicum spp.)from Kenya Notified by Italy. Destroyed. Result 0,022 +/- 0,011 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). clothianidinlambda-cyhalothrinthiamethoxam
- 2026.5309 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 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 Beans Kenya Pesticide Residue Notified by Netherlands. Destroyed. Result 0.047 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). flutriafol
- 2026.4075 Beans Kenya Pesticide Residue Notified by Netherlands. Destroyed. Result 0.027 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). bifenthrin
- 2026.4045 Beans Kenya Pesticide Residue Notified by Netherlands. Destroyed. Result 0.022 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). flutriafol
- 2026.2839 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
- 2026.2158 Residues of acetamiprid above legal limits in Capsicum spp from Kenya Notified by Italy. Destroyed. Result 0.59±0.3 (limit 0.09 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2026.1581 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 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
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 20 notifications since 2020 concerned fruits and vegetables from Kenya found after entering the EU — 6 alerts, 14 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 50%, at the EU border 25%, official control on the market 20%, consumer complaint or illness 5%. 1 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 8 | 2 | 6 |
| 2023 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2024 | 3 | 1 | 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
- 2024.0957 alertDithiocarbamates in Basil from Kenya, via Israel Notified by Belgium. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 27 (limit 5 mg/kg - ppm). dithiocarbamates
- 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
- 2023.6144 info: attentionChlorpyrifos in avocado from Kenya, via Germany Notified by Czechia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,13 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 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
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