Thailand — Fruits and Vegetables — Peppers & Chilies
Thailand received 20 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Peppers & Chilies, part of Fruits and Vegetables between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising year-on-year. The most-cited issues are acetamiprid, chlorfenapyr, and omethoate. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 4,436 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Thailand over the last 3 years. The list below gives each of these 20 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 19 carry the laboratory result and 16 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import peppers & chilies from Thailand
Higher risk. Thailand ranks 1st of 11 origins shipping peppers & chilies to the EU on border rejections per $1 billion of EU imports, at 4,436 — the highest of them.
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- Chance a consignment is opened at the EU border
- 50% of consignments get identity and physical checks for pesticide residues (Reg. (EU) 2019/1793).
- Rejections against import volume
- On average, 1 border rejection per 307 tonnes imported into the EU over the last 3 years; the 2nd 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 or destroyed 20%; held, final fate not recorded 15%; not stated 5%. 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
- Switzerland (6), France (5), Norway (4), of 20 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- July, August, September, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- acetamiprid (6), chlorfenapyr (4), omethoate (2), triazophos (2), azoxystrobin (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-Q4 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 4 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 5 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.8674 Pesticide residue above MRL detected in chili pepper from Thailand Notified by Norway. Reached the market, destroyed. Result 0,41 (limit 0,09 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2026.8226 Pesticide residue above MRL detected in chili pepper from Thailand Notified by Norway. Destroyed. Result 0,56 (limit 0,09 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2026.6856 Flonicamid in peppers from Thailand Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 1,1 ± 0,6 (limit 0,3 mg/kg - ppm). flonicamid
- 2026.5949 Residues of pesticides in Frozen Red Chili from Thailand Notified by Netherlands. Result 0.042 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorfenapyrclothianidindinotefuranhexaconazole+1 more
- 2026.5942 High results for pesticides for peppers from Thailand Notified by Switzerland. Destroyed. Result 0.028 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). Azoxystrobinindoxacarb
- 2026.3349 Diazinon in chili pepper from Thailand Notified by Norway. Destroyed. Result 0,11 (limit 0,05 mg/kg - ppm). diazinon
- 2026.2533 High results for pesticides for Peppers (other than sweet) (Capsicum spp.) from Thailand Notified by Switzerland. Destroyed. Result 0,074 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). trichlorfon
- 2026.1229 Chlorfenapyr in chili pepper from Thailand Notified by Norway. Destroyed. Result 0,022 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorfenapyr
- 2025.8051 pesticides in fresh chili Notified by Sweden. Destroyed. omethoate
- 2025.6870 Acetamiprid in chilly from Thailand Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 1.4±0.7 (limit 0.090 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2025.6597 Acetamiprid in peppers from Thailand Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 1.4±0.7 (limit 0,090 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2025.6512 Unauthorised substances (pesticides) in peppers (capsicum spp.) from Thailand Notified by Switzerland. Destroyed. Result 0.96 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). acetamipridpyriproxyfentebuconazole
- 2025.6362 Pesticides in chili Notified by Sweden. Destroyed. Result 0,97 (limit 0,3 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2025.3504 Unauthorised substances (pesticides) in peppers from Thailand Notified by Switzerland. Destroyed. Result 1.7 (limit 0.005 mg/kg - ppm). chlorfenapyrcypermethrin
- 2025.1509 Prochloraz in peppers from Thailand Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.18±0.09 (limit 0,030 mg/kg - ppm). prochloraz
- 2024.9626 Chlorfenapyr and triazophos in frozen green chilli from Thailand Notified by Germany. Result 0,048 ± 0,024 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorfenapyrtriazophos
- 2024.6010 Multiple pesticide residues in peppers from Thailand Notified by France. Destroyed. Result 0.026 ± 0.013 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifosprophenophospropiconazoletriazophos
- 2024.4343 Pyraclostrobin in red chilli peppers from Thailand Notified by Ireland. Result 1.3 (limit 0.5 mg/kg - ppm). pyraclostrobin
- 2024.3511 Unauthorised substance lambda-cyhalothrine (0.49 mg/kg - ppm) in peppers (Capsicum spp.) from Thailand Notified by Switzerland. Result 0.49 (limit 0.1 mg/kg - ppm). lambda-cyhalothrin
- 2023.8447 Unauthorised substance Omethoate (0.038 mg/kg - ppm) in peppers (Capsicum spp.) from Thailand Notified by Switzerland. Destroyed. Result 0.038 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). ethionfipronilomethoate
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 3 notifications since 2020 concerned peppers & chilies from Thailand found after entering the EU — 1 alerts, 2 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 33%, official control on the market 33%, at the EU border 33%. 2 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 to date | 1 | 0 | 1 |
- 2026.4235 info: attentionPesticide residues above MRL in Chilipepper from Thailand Notified by Norway. Monitoring or surveillance sample, reached the market. Result 0,045 (limit 0,002 mg/kg - ppm). carbofuranclothianidindinotefuranethion+4 more
- 2023.7555 info: attentionOchratoxin A in dried paprika from Thailand Notified by Switzerland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 417 (limit 20 µg/kg - ppb). ochratoxin A
- 2022.5306 alertChlorpyrifos in dried chili and ethion in ground chili Notified by Switzerland. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.22 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifosethiontriazophos
Data and downloads
Download all 33 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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