Rwanda — Fruits and Vegetables — Peppers & Chilies
Rwanda received 7 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Peppers & Chilies, part of Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q2 and 2026-Q2. Volume peaked at 3 in 2024-Q3, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are acetamiprid, carbendazim, and chlorpyrifos. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 2,181 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Rwanda over the last 3 years. The list below gives each of these 7 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 7 carry the laboratory result and 6 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import peppers & chilies from Rwanda
Higher risk. Rwanda ranks 2nd of 11 origins shipping peppers & chilies to the EU on border rejections per $1 billion of EU imports, at 2,181 — above 90% of them.
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- Chance a consignment is opened at the EU border
- 50% of consignments get identity and physical checks for pesticide residues (Reg. (EU) 2019/1793).
- If it is rejected
- Destroyed 43%; re-dispatched or destroyed 43%; held, final fate not recorded 14% (6 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
- France (4), Belgium (1), Italy (1), of 7 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Test for before shipping
- acetamiprid (3), carbendazim (3), acephate (1), chlorpyrifos (1), clothianidin (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 9 quarters
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| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 3 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.4189 Pesticides residues in chili peppers from Rwanda Notified by Belgium. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.02 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). acetamipridchlorpyrifos
- 2026.2427 Acetamiprid in peppers from Rwanda Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.51 ± 0.26 (limit 0,09 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2026.2338 Acetamiprid in peppers from Rwanda Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.46 ± 0.23 (limit 0,09 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2024.5710 Unauthorised substances (pesticides) in peppers (Capsicum spp.) from Rwanda Notified by Switzerland. Destroyed. Result 0.38 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). acephateclothianidinmepronilmethamidophos+1 more
- 2024.5355 Pesticides residues in peppers of the genus Capsicum (other than sweet) from Rwanda Notified by France. Result Carbendazime et bénomyl (somme, expr. en carbendazime) 0.28±0.14 (limit 0,1 mg/kg - ppm). carbendazim
- 2024.5309 Pesticides residues in peppers of the genus Capsicum (other than sweet) from Rwanda Notified by France. Destroyed. Result Ométhoate : 0.16 ± 0.080 mg/kg. carbendazimomethoateprofenofos
- 2024.4664 Carbendazim (0.87± 0.44 mg/kg) in fresh chili peppers from Rwanda Notified by Italy. Destroyed. Result 0.87 +/- 0.44 (limit 0.1 mg/kg - ppm). carbendazim
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 1 notifications since 2020 concerned peppers & chilies from Rwanda found after entering the EU — 1 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%.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 |
- 2022.1259 info: attentionLambda-cyhalothrin in chillies from Rwanda Notified by Germany. At the EU border, not on the market, destroyed. Result 0,25 (limit 0,1 mg/kg - ppm). lambda-cyhalothrin
Data and downloads
Download all 8 entries (CSV) — every notification behind this page, border rejections and those found on the market, with how each was found and what was done.
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