North Macedonia — Fruits and Vegetables
North Macedonia received 18 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fruits and Vegetables between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are chlorpyrifos, formetanate, and dodine. The list below gives each of these 20 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 18 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 North Macedonia
- 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
- Destroyed 94%; not stated 6%. 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
- Croatia (17), of 17 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- September, August, October, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- chlorpyrifos (7), formetanate (4), dodine (3), azinphos-methyl (2), ethoprofos (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 |
|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 4 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 5 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peppers & Chilies | 9 | 4,455 t | 249.2 | formetanate |
| Other | 5 | — | — | chlorpyrifos |
| Stone Fruit | 1 | — | — | propamocarb |
| Leafy & Herbs | 1 | — | — | Imidaclopride |
| Other Vegetables | 1 | — | — | chlorpyriphos-ethyl |
| Berries & Grapes | 0 | — | — | — |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 12 | 18,688 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
- 2026.8530 Pesticides residues in fresh hot peppers from Republic of North Macedonica Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 1,8. azinphos-methyldodine
- 2026.8331 Formetanate hydrochloride in hot peppers from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,82. dodineethoprofosformetanate
- 2026.7735 Azinphos-methyl in hot peppers from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,066. azinphos-methyldodine
- 2026.7071 Pesticide residues in Kapia peppers from North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,093+-0,047 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2026.6567 Pesticide in fresh plums from Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,041± 0.021 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). propamocarb
- 2025.7902 High content of nickel in pepperoni from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,576. nickel
- 2025.7901 Organoleptic changes in the shipment of peppers from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed.
- 2025.6386 Chlorpyrifos in red peppers from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,026 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2025.6197 Formetanate in fresh peppers from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,059. formetanate
- 2025.0309 Pesticides residues of Imidacloprid in cabbage grom Republic North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,029 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). Imidaclopride
- 2024.7465 Chlorpyrifos in mixed salad from Republic of Nord Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,071. chlorpyrifos
- 2024.6856 Formetanate hydrochloride in fresh peppers from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,043 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2024.3875 Chlorpyrifos in mixed salad from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,028+/-0,014. chlorpyrifos
- 2024.2035 Chlorpyrifos in mixed salad from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,024. chlorpyrifos
- 2024.1130 Chlorpyrifos in mixed salad from Nord Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Result 0,055. chlorpyriphos-ethyl
- 2024.1056 Chlorpyrifos in fresh carrots from Nord Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,049 +/- 0,025 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyriphos-ethyl
- 2024.0469 Chlorpyrifos in a mixed salad from North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,068 +/- 0.034 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2023.7318 Chlorpyrifos in fresh cabbage from Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. chlorpyrifos
- 2023.6363 Pesticide residues of formetanate in peppers from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,13 +/- 0,07 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2022.5318 Chlorpyrifos in fresh plums from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,051 +/- 0,026 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 5 notifications since 2020 concerned fruits and vegetables from North Macedonia found after entering the EU — 2 alerts, 3 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 40%, official control on the market 40%, consumer complaint or illness 20%. 2 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 to date | 1 | 0 | 1 |
- 2026.4536 info: attentionChlorpyrifos in mixed salads from Republic of North Macedonica Notified by Croatia. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 0,047 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2025.7572 info: attentionMethomyl in peppers from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,049 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). methomyl
- 2024.4653 alertCadmium in mushrooms from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Belgium. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 2,7 (limit 0,5 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2024.3987 info: attentionInsect larva in a jar of roasted peppers Notified by Croatia. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market.
- 2023.4460 alertUndeclared allergenic sulphur dioxide in pickled cabbage from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Denmark. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 64 +/-18. sulphur dioxide (SO2)
Data and downloads
Download all 30 entries (CSV) — every notification behind this page, border rejections and those found on the market, with how each was found and what was done.
The file holds entries up to 2026-09-25. To get new ones for North Macedonia by email, watch North Macedonia.