Morocco — Fish and Fish Products — Other

Morocco received 5 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Other, part of Fish and Fish Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume is newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are mercury and Anisakis. The list below gives each of these 20 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 3 carry the laboratory result and 5 say what happened to the consignment.

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Key figures

If you import other from Morocco

Chance a consignment is opened at the EU border: Not on the EU's increased-checks list, so only member states' routine, risk-based checks apply (rates not published).
If it is rejected: Held, final fate not recorded 60%; destroyed 40%. 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: Spain (5), of 5 border rejections in the last 3 years.
Riskiest months: March, September, May, by rejections since 2020.
Test for before shipping: anisakis (1).

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	0
2024-Q2	1
2024-Q3	1
2024-Q4	0
2025-Q1	0
2025-Q2	0
2025-Q3	0
2025-Q4	0
2026-Q1	0
2026-Q2	0
2026-Q3	1
2026-Q4	2

Recent rejections

2026.9385 2026-10-21 Poor temperature control in surimi from Morocco // Rotura de cadena de frío en Surimi de Marruecos Notified by Spain. Destroyed.
2026.9083 2026-10-13 Anisakis in Lepidopus caudatus // Anisakis en Lepidopus caudatus Notified by Spain. Destroyed.
2026.6635 2026-07-27 Larvas de anisakis en Scorpaena Scrofaprocedente de Marruecos // Anisakis larvae in Scorpaena scrofa from Morocco Notified by Spain. Reached the market. Anisakis
2024.6960 2024-09-18 Anisakis en huevas de merluza de Marruecos. Anisakis in hake roe from Morocco. Notified by Spain.
2024.3931 2024-05-20 Anisakis spp en huevas de merluza de Marruecos. Anisakis spp in hake roe from Morocco. Notified by Spain.
2023.6195 2023-09-12 Anisakis en pez (San Pedro) de Marruecos. Anisakis in Zeus faber from Morocco Notified by Spain.
2023.6193 2023-09-12 Anisakis en huevas de merluza de Marruecos. Anisakis in hake roe from Morocco. Notified by Spain.
2023.0200 2023-01-10 Anisakis spp en Scorpaena scrofa procedente de Marruecos // Anisakis spp, in Scorpaena scrofa from Moroco Notified by Spain.
2022.7261 2022-12-13 Anisakis en huevas de merluza de Marruecos / Anisakis in hake roe from Morocco Notified by Spain.
2022.3705 2022-07-01 Poor temperature control in frozen sardina from Morocco Notified by Spain. Reached the market.
2022.3656 2022-06-22 Rotura cadena de frío en sardina congelada de Marruecos; Poor temperature control in frozen saardine from Morocco Notified by Spain.
2022.3569 2022-06-17 Anisakis spp. en pez sable de Marruecos/Anisakis spp, in Lepidopus caudatus from Morocco Notified by Spain.
2022.2685 2022-05-06 Rotura de la cadena de frío en sardina de Marruecos. Poor temperature control in frozen sardina pilchardus from Morocco Notified by Spain.
2022.2339 2022-04-21 Anisakis in Zeus faber roe from Morocco Notified by Spain. Reached the market.
2022.1648 2022-03-21 Presencia de mercurio por encima del límite en Helicolenus dactylopterus de Marruecos. Presence of mercury (0.84+-/0.24 mg/kg) in Helicolenus dactylopterus from Morocco. Notified by Spain. Result 0.84 +/-0..24 (limit 0.5 mg/kg - ppm). mercury
2022.1647 2022-03-21 Mercurio en Helicolenus dactylopterus de Marruecos. Mercury in Helicolenus dactylopterus from Morocco. Notified by Spain. Result 0.98+/-0.29 (limit 0.5 mg/kg - ppm). mercury
2022.1646 2022-03-21 Mercurio (1.2+/- 0.3 mg/kg) por encima del nivel máximo en Epinephelus caninus de Marruecos. Mercury above the maximum level (1.2+/-0.3 mg/kg) in Epinephelus caninus from Morocco. Notified by Spain. Result 1.2 +/- 0.3 (limit 0.5 mg/kg - ppm). mercury
2021.6446 2021-11-26 Anisakis in chilled hake from Morocco Notified by Spain. Destroyed.
2021.4604 2021-08-30 Anisakis-Zeus faber-Marruecos/Anisakis-Zeus faber-Morocco Notified by Spain. Destroyed.
2021.4469 2021-08-20 Marcado de identificación erróneo, Sardina pilchardus, Marruecos // Identification marking is not correct in Sardina pilchardus from Morocco Notified by Spain. Re-dispatched.

Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications

Besides border rejections, 6 notifications since 2020 concerned other from Morocco found after entering the EU — 6 information notifications. They are not part of the rejection figures or rates above, which measure border controls.

How they were found: at the EU border 100%.

information notifications

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Year	Total	Information notifications
2020	0	0
2021	2	2
2022	2	2
2023	2	2
2024	0	0
2025	0	0
2026 to date	0	0

2023.5833 2023-08-29 info: attentionMercurio en Pagrus Pagrus de Marruecos. Mercury in Pagrus Pagrus from Morocco. Notified by Spain. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.91+/-0.25 (limit 0.5 mg/kg - ppm). mercury
2023.2345 2023-04-06 info: attentionMercurio en pez espada de Marruecos. Mercury in Xiphias gladus from Morocco Notified by Spain. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 1,6±0,3 (limit 1 mg/kg - ppm). heavy metals
2022.3664 2022-06-22 info: attentionMercury above allowed maximum level in Helicolenus dactylopterus from Morocco Notified by Spain. At the EU border, not on the market. Result 1.0 +- 0.2 (limit 0.5 mg/kg - ppm). mercury
2022.1348 2022-03-07 info: attention Mercurio en Pagrus Pagrus de Marruecos.Presence of mercury above the maximum level in pagrus pagrus from Morocco. Notified by Spain. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.77 +- 0.21 (limit 0.5 mg/kg - ppm). mercury
2021.6899 2021-12-15 info: attentionPresenza mercurio oltre limiti Pagro Marocco Notified by Italy. At the EU border, reached the market.
2021.1972 2021-04-21 info: attentionHISTAMINA EN CABALLAS origen Marruecos. Notified by Spain. At the EU border, reached the market. Result > 800 mg (limit 200mg /kg). histamine

Data and downloads

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