Madagascar — Fruits and Vegetables

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Madagascar received 5 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume is falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are chlorpyrifos, carbaryl, and chlorpyriphos-ethyl.

Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

By commodity, last 156 weeks

"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

• 2026.8691 2026-10-01 Acetamiprid in black eyed beans from Madagascar Notified by Greece. acetamiprid
• 2025.5288 2025-07-11 Pesticide residues in Madagascar black eye beans Notified by Netherlands. Result 0.10 (limit 0,04 mg/kg - ppm). thiamethoxam
• 2025.1608 2025-03-06 Carbaryl in black-eyed peas from Madagascar shipped from Türkiye Notified by Italy. Destroyed. carbaryl
• 2024.3245 2024-04-23 Pesticides in black eyed beans Notified by Sweden. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,018 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). carbarylchlorpyriphos-ethylfenitrothion
• 2024.1784 2024-03-11 Pesticides residues in cow peas from Madagascar Notified by Belgium. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,18 (limit 0,05 mg/kg - ppm). carbarylchlorpyrifosdimethoate
• 2023.7518 2023-11-02 Chlorpyrifos in black eyed beans from Madagascar Notified by France. Destroyed. Result 0.030±0.015 (limit 0,010 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2023.7445 2023-10-31 Chlorpyrifos in black eyed beans from Madagascar Notified by France. Destroyed. Result 0.033 ± 0.017 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2023.6561 2023-09-28 Chlorpyrifos in black eyed beans from Madagascar Notified by France. Destroyed. Result 0.048±0.024 (limit 0,010 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2023.4863 2023-07-19 Chlorpyrifos-ethyl residus in black eyed peas from Madagascar, dispatch via Türkiye. Notified by Belgium. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.019 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2023.4513 2023-07-05 Chlorpyrifos in cowpeas from Madagascar Notified by Germany. Result Chlorpyrifos 0,034 +/- 0,017 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2023.4346 2023-06-28 chlorpyrifos and pyrimiphos-methyl in black eyed beans from Madagascar Notified by France. Destroyed. Result 0.062 (limit 0.032 /kg). chlorpyrifospirimiphos-methyl
• 2023.4345 2023-06-28 Pesticides in black-eyed beans from Madagascar Notified by Sweden. Result 0,32. carbarylchlorpyriphos-ethylcypermethrin
• 2023.3994 2023-06-14 Chlorpirifos in beans from Madagascar - Clorpirifos in fagioli dall'occhio dal Madagascar Notified by Italy. Destroyed. Result 0,065 +/- 0,033 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2023.3435 2023-05-24 Chlorpyrifos in black eyed beans from Madagascar Notified by Greece. Result 0.28 ± 0.14 (95%) (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2022.6255 2022-10-26 Chlorpyrifos ethyl e Dimethoate in fagioli secchi origine Madagascar/Chlorpyrifos ethyl and Dimethoate in dried beans from Madagascar Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched. Result Chlorpyrifos ethyl 0,071 mg/kg ; Dimethoate 0,038 mg/kg (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). pesticide residues
• 2022.5714 2022-10-03 Chlorpyrifos in black eyed beans from Madagascar Notified by Greece. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.035 ± 0.018 (95%) (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2022.2171 2022-04-12 Chlorpyrifos in black eyed beans from Madagascar Notified by Greece. Re-dispatched. Result 0.076 ± 0.038 (95%) (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2022.2019 2022-04-06 Chlorpyrifos in black eyed beans from Madagascar Notified by Greece. Result 0.040 ± 0.020 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2022.1745 2022-03-24 Carbaryl, chlorpyrifos and fenitrothion in Back eyed beans from Madagascar Notified by Greece. Result 2.00 ± 1.00 (95%) (limit 0.05 mg/kg - ppm). carbarylchlorpyrifosfenitrothion
• 2022.1744 2022-03-24 Chlorpyifos in black eyed beans from Madagascar Notified by Greece. Result 0.062 ± 0.031 (95%) (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos

Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications

Besides border rejections, 15 notifications since 2020 concerned fruits and vegetables from Madagascar found after entering the EU — 6 alerts, 9 information notifications. They are not part of the rejection figures or rates above, which measure border controls.

How they were found: official control on the market 53%, consumer complaint or illness 20%, company's own check 13%, monitoring or surveillance sample 7%, at the EU border 7%. 5 led to a recall from consumers.

alerts information notifications

• 2026.5194 2026-06-11 info: attentionPresence of foreign objects (glass) in green beans Notified by France. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market.
• 2026.1830 2026-03-05 info: attentionForeign object in canned vegetables Notified by France. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market.
• 2025.1167 2025-02-19 info: attentionForeign body (glass) in green beans from Madagascar Notified by France. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market.
• 2024.9212 2024-12-13 alertUnauthorized substances chlorpyriphos, chlorfenapyr and lufenuron in black-eyed peas from Madagascar, via Türkiye Notified by Austria. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,022 ± 0,011 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorfenapyrchlorpyrifoslufenuron
• 2024.7755 2024-10-22 info: follow-upPesticide chlorpyrifos in Black Eyed Beans from Madagascar, via Türkiye Notified by Austria. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,091 ± 0,046 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2023.8854 2023-12-21 alertETO in Black beans from Madagaskar Notified by Denmark. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,1. ethylene oxide
• 2023.8820 2023-12-21 alertUnauthorized substance chlorpyrifos in black-eyed peas from Madagascar, via Turkey Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,036 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2023.8804 2023-12-20 info: attentionChlorpyrifos in cowpeas, from Madagascar Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, re-dispatched. Result 0,036 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2023.6288 2023-09-15 alertChlorpyriphos in dried black eye beans from Madagascar Notified by Norway. Monitoring or surveillance sample, destroyed. Result 0,014 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyriphos-ethyl
• 2023.3919 2023-06-12 info: attentionChlorpyrifos in black eyed peas from Madagascar, dispatched from Türkiye Notified by Switzerland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0.021 +/- 0.010. chlorpyrifos