South Africa — Fish and Fish Products
South Africa received 2 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fish and Fish Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is newly active in the last year. The most-cited issue is Anisakis simplex parasitic infestation with. The list below gives each of these 8 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 4 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
- What happened to rejected consignments, last 3 years
- Destroyed: 50%; Re-dispatched: 50%. Source: RASFF Window notification records.
Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuna | 1 | — | — | — |
| Other | 1 | — | — | Anisakis simplex parasitic infestation with |
"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
- 2026.6395 Rotura de cadena de frío en atún de Sudáfrica // Poor temperature control for South African tuna Notified by Spain. Re-dispatched.
- 2024.0292 Anisakis simplex in frozen burbot (Genypterus capensis) fillet from SA Notified by Poland. Destroyed. Anisakis simplex parasitic infestation with
- 2023.2000 improper health certificate(s) (labelled approval number does not match the one on the certificate) for frozen thornback skate wings (Raja clavata) from South Africa Notified by Portugal. Destroyed.
- 2023.0731 Marcado de identificación etiquetas no coincidente con CSO en merluzas de Sudáfrica // Identification tagging mismatched with Health Certificate tags on South African hake Notified by Spain.
- 2022.2161 Improper health certificate (invalid authority) in frozen tuna from South Africa Notified by Spain.
- 2021.3568 improper health certificate(s) (identification on the product does not match the information from the official certificate) for frozen hake from South Africa Notified by Spain. Re-dispatched.
- 2021.3592 Batch numbers do not match with certificate in hake from South Africa // Lotes no coincidentes con el certificado, merluza de Sudáfrica Notified by Spain.
- 2020.1107 Rupture of the cold chain of frozen kingklip Notified by Spain.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 1 notifications since 2020 concerned fish and fish products from South Africa 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: monitoring or surveillance sample 100%.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 |
- 2025.5230 info: attentionmercury in tuna Notified by France. Monitoring or surveillance sample, reached the market. Result 2,3 (limit 1 mg/kg - ppm). mercury
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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South Africa country report since 2020 — all notification types, not just border rejections →