Sudan — Nuts, Nut Products and Seeds
Sudan received 112 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Nuts, Nut Products and Seeds between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 24 in 2025-Q4, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The list below gives the 20 most recent rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it; 20 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import nuts, nut products and seeds from Sudan
- Chance a consignment is opened at the EU border
- 50% of consignments get identity and physical checks for salmonella (Reg. (EU) 2019/1793).
- If it is rejected
- Treated, sorted or diverted 98%; re-dispatched or destroyed 2% (2,618 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
- Greece (126), of 126 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- December, October, April, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- salmonella (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 |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 7 |
| 2024-Q2 | 19 |
| 2024-Q3 | 4 |
| 2024-Q4 | 13 |
| 2025-Q1 | 11 |
| 2025-Q2 | 13 |
| 2025-Q3 | 8 |
| 2025-Q4 | 24 |
| 2026-Q1 | 7 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 2 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sesame | 126 | 141 t | 3,297 | Salmonella spp |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 126 | 141 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
- 2026.8887 Absence of health certificate(s) in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2026.8810 Absence of health certificate(s) in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2026.6551 Absence of health certificate(s) in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2026.4451 Absence of health certificate(s) in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2026.4449 Absence of health certificate(s) in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2026.4255 Absence of official certificates in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2026.1321 Absence of health certificates in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2026.0999 Absence of health certificate(s) in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2026.0997 Absence of health certificate(s) in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2026.0395 Absence of health certificate(s) in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2026.0191 Absence of health certificate(s) in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2026.0190 Absence of health certificate(s) in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2026.0081 Absence of official certificates in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2025.10452 Absence of health certificate(s) for sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2025.10451 Absence of health certificate(s) for sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2025.10450 Absence of health certificate(s) for sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2025.10369 Absence of official certificate(s) in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2025.10367 Absence of official certificate(s) in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2025.10114 Absence of official certificates in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
- 2025.10113 Absence of official certificates in sesame seeds from Sudan Notified by Greece. Treated, sorted or diverted.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 1 notifications since 2020 concerned nuts, nut products and seeds from Sudan 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 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 |
- 2020.1377 info: attentionSEMI DI SESAMO Notified by Italy. At the EU border, not on the market, re-dispatched. Result PRESENTE (limit ASSENTE /25g). Salmonella spp.
Data and downloads
Download all 199 entries (CSV) — every notification behind this page, border rejections and those found on the market, with how each was found and what was done.
The file holds entries up to 2026-10-08. To get new ones for Sudan by email, watch Sudan.
Sudan country report since 2020 — all notification types, not just border rejections →