Russia — Fruits and Vegetables — Other Vegetables
Russia received 10 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Other Vegetables, part of Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 4 in 2024-Q1, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pymetrozine, flonicamid, and dichlorvos. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 93.7 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Russia over the last 3 years. The list below gives each of these 16 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 4 carry the laboratory result and 16 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import other vegetables from Russia
Below the median. Russia ranks 5th of 8 origins shipping other vegetables to the EU on border rejections per $1 billion of EU imports, at 93.7 — above 43% of them.
least riskmost risk
- 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).
- Rejections against import volume
- On average, 1 border rejection per 7,663 tonnes imported into the EU over the last 3 years; the 4th highest rejection rate of 7 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (EU import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- If it is rejected
- Re-dispatched 100%. 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
- Latvia (5), Poland (5), of 10 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- September, February, March, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pymetrozine (2), dichlorvos (1), flonicamid (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 | 4 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 3 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.8817 Przekroczenie NDP pozostałości pestycydów w przesyłce ogórków świeżych z Rosji // Exceedance of the MRL for pesticide residues in a shipment of fresh cucumbers from Russia Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. Result 0.11±0.06 (limit 0.02 mg/kg - ppm). pymetrozine
- 2025.5166 Improper consignment identity code in the Official certificate (4) and labeling (5) of Cantharellus from Russia Notified by Latvia. Re-dispatched.
- 2025.2319 Incorrect documents accompanying the shipment of dried mushrooms from Russia Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched.
- 2025.2218 Flonicamid (3,0 +/- 1,5 mg/kg) in cucumbers from Russia Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. Result 3,0 +/- 1,5 (limit 0,5 mg/kg - ppm). flonicamid
- 2025.0967 Przekroczenie dopuszczalnych poziomów zawartości pestycydów w przesyłce świeżych ogórków///Exceeding the permissible levels of pesticides in fresh cucumbers country of origin Russia Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. Result 0,13 +/- 0,07 (limit 0,02 mg/kg - ppm). pymetrozine
- 2024.3924 Dichlorfos (0,17 ±0,085 mg/kg) w ogórkach świeżych/// Dichlorvos (0.17 ± 0.085 mg/kg) in fresh cucumbers Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. Result 0,17 ±0,085 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). dichlorvos
- 2024.1063 Improper Official Certificate(s) for Cantharellus cibarius from Russia. Mismatch in Official Certificate(s), and Sampling and Analytical protocol of the identity of the weight of the goods. Notified by Latvia. Re-dispatched.
- 2024.1061 Improper Official Certificate(s) for frozen tubular mushrooms, mix of Boletus edulis and Leccinium auratiacum from Russia. Mismatch in Official Certificate(s), and Sampling and Analytical protocol of the identity of the weight of the goods. Notified by Latvia. Re-dispatched.
- 2024.1060 Improper Official Certificate(s) for Cantharellus cibarius from Russia. Mismatch in Official Certificate(s), and Sampling and Analytical protocol of the identity of the weight of the goods. Notified by Latvia. Re-dispatched.
- 2024.0893 Improper information in Official Certificate(s) and Sampling and analytical protocol (mismatch with weight, language and sampling not taken by CA) for frozen mushrooms Notified by Latvia. Re-dispatched.
- 2023.6616 Improper Official Certificate(s) for Cantharellus cibarius from Russia. Mismatch in OC on the identity, weight of the goods and their aggregate state. Sampling not carried out by the competent authority. Notified by Latvia. Reached the market, re-dispatched.
- 2023.6177 Improper test report (sampling has not been done by the competent authority of third country) for mushrooms from Russia Notified by Latvia. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2023.6176 Improper test report (sampling has not been done by the competent authority of third country) for mushrooms from Russia Notified by Latvia. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2023.6175 Improper test report (sampling has not been done by the competent authority of third country) for mushrooms from Russia Notified by Latvia. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2020.3873 Chanterelle (Cantharellus Cibarius) Notified by Latvia. Re-dispatched.
- 2020.3836 Chanterelle (Cantharellus cibarius) Notified by Latvia. Re-dispatched.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 2 notifications since 2020 concerned other vegetables from Russia found after entering the EU — 1 alerts, 1 information notifications. They are not part of the rejection figures or rates above, which measure border controls.
How they were found: monitoring or surveillance sample 50%, consumer complaint or illness 50%. 1 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- 2025.7980 info: attentionExcessive levels of radioactivity in fresh mushrooms from Russia Notified by Lithuania. Monitoring or surveillance sample, not on the market, destroyed. Result 764.97±40.62 (limit 600 BQ/kg). radioactivity
- 2024.4920 alertClostridium botulinum toxins in pickled mushrooms from the Russian Federation Notified by Germany. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market. Clostridium botulinum
Data and downloads
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