Serbia — Fruits and Vegetables — Other Vegetables
Serbia received 7 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Other Vegetables, part of Fruits and Vegetables between 2022-Q3 and 2024-Q4. Volume peaked at 3 in 2024-Q4, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are metalaxyl, fluazifop, and chlorpyrifos. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 37.2 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Serbia 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 7 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import other vegetables from Serbia
Below the median. Serbia ranks 6th of 8 origins shipping other vegetables to the EU on border rejections per $1 billion of EU imports, at 37.2 — above 29% of them.
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- 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 28,133 tonnes imported into the EU over the last 3 years; the 5th highest rejection rate of 7 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (EU import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- If it is rejected
- Destroyed 60%; re-dispatched 20%; re-dispatched or destroyed 20%. 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 (5), of 5 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Test for before shipping
- fluazifop (2), chlorpyrifos (1), fluazifop-p (1), metalaxyl (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 10 quarters
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| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2022-Q3 | 1 |
| 2022-Q4 | 0 |
| 2023-Q1 | 0 |
| 2023-Q2 | 0 |
| 2023-Q3 | 1 |
| 2023-Q4 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 3 |
Recent rejections
- 2024.9365 Fluazifop in broccoli from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,37 +/- 0,19 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). fluazifop
- 2024.8895 Fluazifop in broccoli from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,067. fluazifop
- 2024.7402 Chlorpyrifos in cucumbers from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,060 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2024.1456 Pesticide residues of metalaxyl in pasteurized cucumbers from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Re-dispatched. Result 0,022 +/- 0,11 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). metalaxyl
- 2023.7910 Pesticide residues of fluazifop in cauliflower from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,035+/-0,018 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). fluazifop-P
- 2023.6233 Metalaxyl in fresh cucumbers for further processing from Serbia Notified by Slovenia. Destroyed. Result 0,025 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). metalaxyl
- 2022.4158 Fresh cucumbers from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,044+/-0,022 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). metalaxyl
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 2 notifications since 2020 concerned other vegetables from Serbia found after entering the EU — 2 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%, at the EU border 50%. 1 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 |
- 2022.5975 info: follow-upchlorpyriphos in cucumbers Notified by Slovenia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,057 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2021.4235 info: attention Chlorpyriphos-ethyl in cucumbers from Serbia Notified by Slovenia. At the EU border. Result 0,086 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
Data and downloads
Download all 9 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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