Peru — Fruits and Vegetables
Peru received 10 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 cadmium, phenthoate, and dinotefuran. The list below gives each of these 16 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 11 carry the laboratory result and 10 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import fruits and vegetables from Peru
- 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 80%; held, final fate not recorded 10%; not stated 10% (50 tonnes in all). 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
- Italy (5), Croatia (2), Spain (2), of 10 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- May, January, November, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- dinotefuran (3), phenthoate (3), chlorfenapyr (2), fipronil (2), permethrin (2).
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 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peppers & Chilies | 3 | — | — | dinotefuran |
| Tropical (Figs, Pomegranate, Mango, Dates) | 2 | — | — | propamocarb |
| Other | 2 | — | — | — |
| Other Vegetables | 2 | — | — | cyromazine |
| Citrus | 1 | — | — | phenthoate |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 8 | 229,796 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
- 2026.9107 Cadmium (Cd) in avocado from Peru Notified by Greece. Destroyed. Result 0,121+/-0,024 (limit 0,050 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2026.7993 Poor temperature control in frozen artichoke from Peru // Ruptura de la cadena de frío en alcachofas congeladas de Perú Notified by Spain. Destroyed.
- 2026.0699 Cyromazine in beans from Peru Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,16. cyromazine
- 2025.9146 Phenthoate in limes from Peru Notified by Italy. Result 0,2 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). phenthoate
- 2025.8595 Multiresidues of pesticides in fresh pepper (Capsicum baccatum) from Perù Notified by Italy. Destroyed. Result O,21+/-0,11 (limit 0,09 mg/kg - ppm). acetamipridchlorfenapyrclothianidindinotefuran+2 more
- 2025.3706 Methamidophos, Dinotefuran and Permethrin in fresh pepper (capsicum baccatum) from Perù Notified by Italy. Destroyed. Result 0,63 +/- 0,32 mg (limit 0,05 mg /kg). dinotefuranmethamidophospermethrin
- 2025.3702 Chlorfenapyr, Fipronil and summa,Phenthoate, Dinotefuran and Permethrin in fresh pepper (capsicum baccatum) from Perù Notified by Italy. Destroyed. Result 0,33 +/- 0,17 mg (limit 0,01 mg /kg). chlorfenapyrdinotefuranfipronilpermethrin+1 more
- 2025.0040 Residui di pesticidi (Cyfluthrin, Lambda cyalothrin e Propamocarb) su granadille fresche da Perù//Pesticide residues (Cyfluthrin, Lambda cyalothrin and Propamocarb) on fresh granadillas from Peru Notified by Italy. Destroyed. Result 0,024 +/- 0,012 mg (limit 0,01 mg /kg). cyfluthrinlambda-cyhalothrinpropamocarb
- 2024.8953 unauthorised novel food cocona (Solanum sessiliflorum) from Peru Notified by Spain. Destroyed.
- 2024.0345 Large amount of the bean weevil (Acanthoscelides obtectus) in beans Notified by Croatia.
- 2023.3612 Plaguicida no autorizado (matrina) en aguacates de Perú/Unauthorized pesticide (matrine) in avocado from Perú Notified by Spain. Result 0.026 ± 0.013 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). matrine
- 2023.3403 Plaguicida no autorizado (matrina) en aguacates de Perú/Unauthorized pesticide (matrine) in avocado from Perú Notified by Spain. Result 0.022 mg/kg (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). matrine
- 2022.7653 Cadmio por encima de los límites permitidos en pimientos precocinados congelados de Perú // Cadmium above permitted limits in frozen pre-cooked peppers from Peru Notified by Spain. Result 0.09 mg/kg +- 23.5% (limit 0.02 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2022.5393 Presence of Sodium metabisulfite (E223) in pickled chilli above the limits from Peru - Metabisulfito sódico (E223) en guindillas encurtidas de Perú por encima de los límites Notified by Spain.
- 2022.3942 Ervilhas-de-angola contaminadas por cadmio Notified by Portugal. Re-dispatched. Result 0.033 (limit 0.020 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2020.5028 119232 Notificación rechazo Notified by Spain. Destroyed.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 112 notifications since 2020 concerned fruits and vegetables from Peru found after entering the EU — 34 alerts, 78 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 52%, at the EU border 29%, official control on the market 17%, monitoring or surveillance sample 1%, consumer complaint or illness 1%. 11 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 2022 | 13 | 7 | 6 |
| 2023 | 9 | 5 | 4 |
| 2024 | 15 | 5 | 10 |
| 2025 | 33 | 7 | 26 |
| 2026 to date | 33 | 8 | 25 |
- 2026.9486 info: attentionMetribuzin in fresh asparagus from Peru // Metribucina en espárragos frescos de Perú Notified by Spain. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.45 (limit 0.1 mg/kg - ppm). metribuzin
- 2026.8749 info: attentionPesticides above legal limits in fresh chili peppers from Perù Notified by Italy. At the EU border. Result 0.42 +/- 0.21 (limit 0.09 mg/kg - ppm). acetamipridchlorfenapyrclothianidindimethoate+9 more
- 2026.8102 info: attentionPesticide residues in Capsicum spp. from Peru // Residuos de plaguicidas en Capsicum spp. de Perú Notified by Spain. At the EU border, not on the market. Result 0,021. carbofuranphenthoate
- 2026.7882 info: attentioncadmio above legal limits in chili from Perù Notified by Italy. At the EU border. Result PRESENTE 0.09 mg/kg (limit PRESENTE 0.09 mg/kg Incertezza estesa: ±0.03 mg/kg Rec:96% K:2… cadmium
- 2026.7537 info: attentionClorpirifos y Metomilo en espárragos de Perú / Chlorpyrifos and Methomyl in asparagus from Peru Notified by Spain. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0,15 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifosmethomyl
- 2026.7400 info: attentionCadmium in avocado from Peru Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check. Result 0,09 (limit 0.05 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2026.7042 info: attentionPesticide residues in avocado, from Peru Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, destroyed. Result 0,15 (limit 0,05 mg/kg - ppm). cypermethrinimidacloprid
- 2026.6848 info: attentionAcetamiprid in avocado from Peru Notified by Belgium. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,028 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2026.6722 info: attentionDimetoato en mangos en Perú / Dimethoate in mangoes in Perú Notified by Spain. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.023+-0.012 (limit 0,010 mg/kg - ppm). dimethoateomethoatepropamocarbthiamethoxam
- 2026.6678 info: follow-upCadmium in avocado from Peru Notified by Belgium. Company's own check, re-dispatched. Result 0,091 (limit 0,05 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
Data and downloads
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