Serbia — Fruits and Vegetables — Stone Fruit

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Serbia received 3 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Stone Fruit, part of Fruits and Vegetables between 2023-Q3. The most-cited issues are chlorpyrifos and formetanate. The list below gives each of these 3 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 3 carry the laboratory result and 3 say what happened to the consignment.

Quarterly rejections, last 1 quarter

Recent rejections

• 2023.5978 2023-09-04 Pesticide residues of formetanate in peaches from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,046. formetanate
• 2023.5904 2023-08-31 Pesticide residues of chlorpyrifos in plum from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,025 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2023.5467 2023-08-11 Chlorpyrifos in peaches from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Re-dispatched. Result 0,081 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos

Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications

Besides border rejections, 10 notifications since 2020 concerned stone fruit from Serbia found after entering the EU — 2 alerts, 8 information notifications. They are not part of the rejection figures or rates above, which measure border controls.

How they were found: official control on the market 50%, company's own check 20%, monitoring or surveillance sample 10%, consumer complaint or illness 10%, at the EU border 10%. 4 led to a recall from consumers.

alerts information notifications

• 2026.2038 2026-03-11 info: attentionElevated levels of sorbic acid in batch of dried prunes without pits from Serbia Notified by Slovenia. Monitoring or surveillance sample. Result 1600+/-320 (limit 1000 mg/kg - ppm). E 200 - sorbic acid
• 2025.7505 2025-10-01 info: attentionSulphite undeclared (sulfur dioxide) in dried osmotic apricots from Serbia Notified by Greece. Official control on the market, not on the market. Result 267 (limit 10 mg/kg - ppm). E220- sulfur dioxide
• 2024.6413 2024-08-23 info: attentionAcetamiprid in Plums from Serbia Notified by Slovenia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,10 (limit 0,03 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
• 2024.5884 2024-08-01 alertunauthorised substance chlorpyriphos in peaches Notified by Slovenia. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 0.045 (+/-0.020) (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2024.2273 2024-03-22 alertDimethoate in frozen cherries from Serbia Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, reached the market, re-dispatched. Result 0.044 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). dimethoate
• 2023.6300 2023-09-15 info: attentionMold on the surface of dried plum, packaged in Croatia with raw material from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market.
• 2023.5145 2023-07-31 info: attentionUnauthorised substance chlorpyriphos in peaches from Serbia Notified by Slovenia. At the EU border. Result 0,024 +-0,012 (limit 0,01 mg/kg dry matter). chlorpyriphos-ethyl
• 2023.4761 2023-07-14 info: attentionDepasire LMA Chlorpyrifos in Nectarine, origine Serbia///Exceeding the Chlorpyrifos MLA in Nectarines, origin Serbia Notified by Romania. Official control on the market, reached the market, destroyed. Result 0.044 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2022.5040 2022-08-31 info: attentionChlorpyrifos-ethyl in peaches from Serbia Notified by Slovenia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,087. chlorpyrifos
• 2022.4198 2022-07-18 info: attentionUnauthorised substance chlorpyrifos in fresh peach from Serbia Notified by Romania. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0.062 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos