Serbia — Fruits and Vegetables
Serbia received 13 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fruits and Vegetables between 2023-Q3 and 2026-Q2. Volume peaked at 4 in 2023-Q3, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are chlorpyrifos, metalaxyl, and fluazifop. The list below gives each of these 18 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 16 carry the laboratory result and 17 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import fruits and vegetables from Serbia
- 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 62%; re-dispatched 25%; re-dispatched or destroyed 12%. 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 (7), Slovenia (1), of 8 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- August, June, July, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- fluazifop (2), metalaxyl (2), chlorpyrifos (1), fluazifop-p (1), nickel (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
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2023-Q3 | 4 |
| 2023-Q4 | 2 |
| 2024-Q1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 3 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other Vegetables | 5 | 28,133 t | 37.2 | fluazifop |
| Other | 2 | — | — | metalaxyl |
| Leafy & Herbs | 1 | — | — | nickel |
| Stone Fruit | 0 | — | — | — |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 6 | 41,496 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
- 2026.4792 Incomplete import documents (black Truffles) Notified by Slovenia. Reached the market, re-dispatched.
- 2026.0641 Nickel in fermented cabbage head from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,922 (limit ≤ 0.50 null). nickel
- 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
- 2024.5665 Increased level of pesticide metalaxil in gherkins from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,14 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). metalaxyl
- 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
- 2023.7100 iprodion in black berry Notified by Slovenia. Re-dispatched. Result 0,023 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). iprodione
- 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
- 2023.5978 Pesticide residues of formetanate in peaches from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,046. formetanate
- 2023.5904 Pesticide residues of chlorpyrifos in plum from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,025 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2023.5467 Chlorpyrifos in peaches from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Re-dispatched. Result 0,081 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2023.1633 Pesticides residues of Formetanate hydrochloride in apples from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,15 +/-0,075 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2022.4887 Chlorpyrifos in fresh cornichons from Serbia Notified by Croatia. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,10 +/- 0.05. chlorpyrifos
- 2022.4634 propyzamide in red beet Notified by Slovenia. Reached the market.
- 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
- 2021.2842 chlorpyrifos in dried parsley leaf Notified by Croatia. Re-dispatched. Result 0,19. chlorpyrifos
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 32 notifications since 2020 concerned fruits and vegetables from Serbia found after entering the EU — 16 alerts, 16 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 31%, consumer complaint or illness 9%, at the EU border 6%, monitoring or surveillance sample 3%. 16 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| 2026 to date | 5 | 1 | 4 |
- 2026.8996 info: attentionCadmium in raspberries from Serbia Notified by Belgium. Company's own check, re-dispatched. Result 0.05 (limit 0.04 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2026.8316 info: attentioncadmium in raspberries, unsweetened, frozen from Serbia Notified by Switzerland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0.071 (limit 0.04 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2026.4148 alertHepatitis A Virus in a frozen berry mix from Serbia, via Germany Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. hepatitis A virus
- 2026.3844 info: attentionDetection of cadmium in a batch of raspberry Notified by France. Company's own check. Result 0,071 ± 0,008 (limit 0,04 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2026.2038 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
- 2025.9313 alertCadmium in frozen raspberries exceeds the maximum limit Notified by Switzerland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0.064 (limit 0.04 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2025.7560 alertSulphite undeclared (sulfur dioxide) on dried osmotic strawberries from Serbia Notified by Greece. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 27 (limit 10 mg/kg - ppm). E220- sulfur dioxide
- 2025.7505 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
- 2025.5259 alertHepatitis A viruses in frozen mixed berries from Serbia, via Germany Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. hepatitis A virus
- 2025.4116 alertFormetanate in frozen strawberries from Serbia Notified by Belgium. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 0,83 (limit 0,4 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
Data and downloads
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