Turkey — Dietetic Foods, Food Supplements and Fortified Foods
Turkey received 17 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Dietetic Foods, Food Supplements and Fortified Foods between 2023-Q3 and 2026-Q2. Volume peaked at 7 in 2023-Q3, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are sildenafil, sibutramine, and tadalafil. The list below gives each of these 20 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 15 carry the laboratory result and 4 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods from Turkey
- 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 40%; held, final fate not recorded 30%; not stated 30%. 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
- Italy (4), Germany (3), Belgium (2), of 10 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- August, December, May, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- sildenafil (6), sibutramine (4), colour E 171 - titanium dioxide unauthorised use (1), tadalafil (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
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| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2023-Q3 | 7 |
| 2023-Q4 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 2 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.4306 sildenafil in integratori alimentari / sildenafil in food supplements from Türkiye Notified by Italy. Result PRESENTE (limit ASSENTE null). sildenafil
- 2025.8849 Ditlenek tytanu (E 171) w składzie suplementu diety z Turcji /// Titanium dioxide (E 171) in the composition of a food supplement from Turkey Notified by Poland. Destroyed. colour E 171 - titanium dioxide
- 2025.6643 Sildenafil and tadalafil in food supplements from Turkey Notified by Germany. Destroyed. Result 1450. sildenafiltadalafil
- 2025.3464 Sibutramine in food supplements from Turkey Notified by Germany. Destroyed. Result 2410. sibutramine
- 2025.3435 Sibutramine in food supplement from Turkiye Notified by Germany. Destroyed. Result 3430 ± 548. sibutramine
- 2024.6972 Sildenafil in food supplements Notified by Italy. Reached the market. sildenafil
- 2024.3007 Detection of sibutramine in single-serving tea bags from Türkiye Notified by Italy. sibutramine
- 2024.0678 Unauthorised substance sildenafil in herbal mixture Notified by Belgium. Monitoring or surveillance sample. Result detected. sildenafil
- 2024.0545 Sildenafil in food supplements Epymedyumlu Macun Notified by Italy. sildenafil
- 2023.8895 Unauthorised substance sibutramin and sildenafil in tea from Türkiye Notified by Belgium. Monitoring or surveillance sample. Result detected (limit absent null). sibutraminesildenafil
- 2023.6507 Sildenafil in food supplements Notified by Italy. sildenafil
- 2023.5343 Unauthorised substance sibutramin and a trace amount of sildenafil in Detox Tea of Turkey Notified by Belgium. Result detected. sibutraminesildenafil
- 2023.5342 Unauthorised substance sibutramine in Food supplement from Turkey Notified by Belgium. Result detected. sibutramine
- 2023.5341 Unauthorised substance sildenafil in food supplement from Turkey Notified by Belgium. Result detected. sildenafil
- 2023.5340 Unauthorised substance sildenafil and tadalafil in herbal paste from Turkey Notified by Belgium. Result detected. sildenafiltadalafil
- 2023.5339 Unauthorised substance sildenafil and tadalafil in honey paste from Turkey Notified by Belgium. Result detected. sildenafiltadalafil
- 2023.5215 Unknown composition (too low content of nutrients) of food supplements from Turkey via Bosnia and Herzegovina Notified by Slovenia. Result 2,52 (Zn), 5 (vit.C); 2,2 (vit E). nutrients
- 2022.7538 Unauthorised substance sildenafil and sibutramine in tea from Turkey Notified by Belgium. Result detected. sibutraminesildenafil
- 2022.7537 Unauthorised substance sildenafil and sibutramine in food supplements from Turkey Notified by Belgium. Result detected. sibutraminesildenafil
- 2022.7148 Unauthorised substance sibutramine and sildenafil in detox tea from Turkey Notified by Belgium. Result detected. sibutraminesildenafil
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 42 notifications since 2020 concerned dietetic foods, food supplements and fortified foods from Turkey found after entering the EU — 10 alerts, 32 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 57%, other 17%, consumer complaint or illness 12%, monitoring or surveillance sample 7%, at the EU border 5%, company's own check 2%. 5 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2024 | 11 | 5 | 6 |
| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2026 to date | 7 | 1 | 6 |
- 2026.6448 info: attentionSibutramin in slimming herbal tea from Turkey Notified by Czechia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 1934. sibutramine
- 2026.5816 alertUnauthorized substance sildenafil in food supplement fromTürkiye, via Romania Notified by Cyprus. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 5.0mg (limit NOT ALLOWED IN FOOD SUPPLEMENTS null). sildenafil
- 2026.5464 info: attentionSidenafilo y tadalafilo en complemento alimenticio procedente de Turquía//Sildenafil and tadalafil in a food supplement from Türkiye Notified by Spain. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 20. sildenafiltadalafil
- 2026.3302 info: attentionUnauthorised substance sildenafil in food supplement from Turkey Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 5160 +/- 1030. sildenafil
- 2026.3298 info: attentionUnauthorised substance sildenafil in food supplement from Turkey Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 6850. sildenafil
- 2026.3295 info: attentionSildenafil in food supplements from Turkey Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 3290. sildenafil
- 2026.0132 info: attentionSibutramine en sildenafil in supplements Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 23400 (limit Not present mg/kg - ppm). sibutraminesildenafil
- 2025.6854 info: attentionPresence of sibutramine and sildenafil in food from Türkiye Notified by France. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result detected (limit no detected null). sibutraminesildenafil
- 2025.6116 alertSibutramine in slimming drinks Notified by Netherlands. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market. Result circa 1,6 mg / gram. sibutraminesildenafil
- 2025.5850 info: attentionundeclared active pharmaceutical ingredient sildenafil in honey-based food supplement from Turkey Notified by Luxembourg. Official control on the market, reached the market.
Data and downloads
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