Turkey — Non-Alcoholic Beverages
Turkey received 3 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Non-Alcoholic Beverages between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q1. Volume is roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issue is sibutramine. The list below gives each of these 3 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 1 carries the laboratory result and 1 says what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
- What happened to rejected consignments, last 3 years
- Re-dispatched: 33%; Held, final fate not recorded: 33%; Not stated: 33%. Source: RASFF Window notification records.
Quarterly rejections, last 9 quarters
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| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.2024 Unapproved additive E 171 and unapproved novel foods Althea rosea and Myrtus communis in tea from Turkey Notified by Croatia. Re-dispatched.
- 2024.8122 Insufficient documentation for non-alcoholic beverages from Türkiye Notified by Greece.
- 2024.2312 Sibutramine in DetoxTea from Turkey Notified by Germany. Reached the market. Result 3360. sibutramine
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 4 notifications since 2020 concerned non-alcoholic beverages from Turkey found after entering the EU — 4 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 25%, consumer complaint or illness 25%. 1 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 to date | 1 | 1 |
- 2026.2727 info: attentionSildenafil in soft drink from Turkey Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 453 +/- 136. sildenafil
- 2024.7994 info: follow-upConsignment of coffee drink with milk from Türkiye was not subjected to an official control at the border control post Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market.
- 2023.6775 info: follow-upHerbal tea with Novel Food 'Senna' from Türkiye Notified by Belgium. Official control on the market, reached the market.
- 2022.2225 info: attentionunauthorised substance sildenafil thiono analogue (0.64 mg) in energy drink from Turkey Notified by Greece. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market. Result 0.64. sildenafil thiono analogue
Data and downloads
Download all 7 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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