Turkey — Fruits and Vegetables — Peppers & Chilies
Turkey received 100 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Peppers & Chilies, part of Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 23 in 2026-Q2, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are formetanate, acetamiprid, and emamectin. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 160.0 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Turkey over the last 3 years. The list below gives the 20 most recent rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 20 carry the laboratory result and 20 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import peppers & chilies from Turkey
Lower risk. Turkey ranks 9th of 11 origins shipping peppers & chilies to the EU on border rejections per $1 billion of EU imports, at 160.0 — above 20% of them.
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- Chance a consignment is opened at the EU border
- 20% of consignments get identity and physical checks for pesticide residues (Reg. (EU) 2019/1793).
- Rejections against import volume
- On average, 1 border rejection per 2,989 tonnes imported into the EU over the last 3 years; the 6th highest rejection rate of 7 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (EU import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Size of a rejected lot
- Rejected lots are typically 1.4 t (median of 471 lot weights recorded at the border). Across origins of this product they run from 0.1 t (Vietnam) to 1.4 t (Turkey), so compare the rate per tonne, not the count of rejections.
- If it is rejected
- Destroyed 89%; re-dispatched 11% (278 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
- Bulgaria (106), Croatia (1), of 107 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- May, June, April, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- formetanate (31), acetamiprid (19), spirotetramat (13), chlorpyrifos-methyl (12), fosthiazate (12).
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 |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 4 |
| 2024-Q2 | 11 |
| 2024-Q3 | 11 |
| 2024-Q4 | 4 |
| 2025-Q1 | 8 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 |
| 2025-Q3 | 10 |
| 2025-Q4 | 7 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 |
| 2026-Q2 | 23 |
| 2026-Q3 | 14 |
| 2026-Q4 | 4 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.9017 Emamectin benzoate, Thiamethoxam and Tau-Fluvalinate in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result -0.047 +/- 0.024 (limit 0.02 mg/kg - ppm). emamectintau-fluvalinatethiamethoxam
- 2026.9021 Acetamiprid аnd Malathion in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.213+/-0.107 (limit 0.09 mg/kg - ppm). acetamipridmalathion
- 2026.9018 formetanate in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.116+/-0.058 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2026.9016 Chlorpyrifos-methyl in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result -0.058 +/ - 0.029 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos-methyl
- 2026.8563 Acetamiprid and Spirodiclofen in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.740+/-0.370 (limit 0.09 mg/kg - ppm). acetamipridspirodiclofen
- 2026.8516 Formetanate in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.095 +/- 0.048 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2026.8411 Formetanate in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.430+/- 0.215 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2026.8214 Formetanate in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.339+/-0.170 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2026.8076 Acetamiprid in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.437 +/- 0.219 (limit 0.09 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2026.7899 Acetamiprid in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.219 +/- 0.110 (limit 0.09 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2026.7781 Formetanate in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.488+/-0.244 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2026.7744 Formetanate in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.148+/-0.074 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2026.7489 Pesticide residues in horn peppers from Republic of North Macedonia Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,059. thiamethoxam
- 2026.7413 Emamectin Formetanate and Tebufenpyrad in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.048+/-0.024 (limit 0.02 mg/kg - ppm). emamectinformetanatetebufenpyrad
- 2026.7378 Chlorpyrifos-methyl in peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0,100+/-0,050 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos-methyl
- 2026.6664 Acetamiprid and Acrinatrin in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.247+/-0.124 (limit 0.09 mg/kg - ppm). Acrinathrinacetamiprid
- 2026.6655 Fosthiazate in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.164+/-0.082 (limit 0.02 mg/kg - ppm). fosthiazate
- 2026.5969 Flonicamid and Spirotetramat in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 3.351+/-1.676 (limit 1.0 mg/kg - ppm). Spirotetramatflonicamid
- 2026.5567 Pyridaben in hot fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.844+/-0.422 (limit 0.3 mg/kg - ppm). pyridaben
- 2026.5565 Pyridaben in fresh peppers from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.927 +/- 0.464 (limit 0.3 mg/kg - ppm). pyridaben
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 26 notifications since 2020 concerned peppers & chilies from Turkey found after entering the EU — 4 alerts, 22 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 54%, company's own check 38%, at the EU border 4%, consumer complaint or illness 4%. 2 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2022 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026 to date | 3 | 0 | 3 |
- 2026.9103 info: attentionForeign object: loose coating in canned jalapeño peppers from Türkiye Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check.
- 2026.7144 info: attentionEthephon in fresh chili peppers from Türkiye Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 8,3 ± 4,2 (limit 0,05 mg/kg - ppm). ethephon
- 2026.1946 info: attentionExceeding the maximum allowed of cadmium in red kapia peppers///Depășire nivel maxim admis de Cadmiu în ardei Kapia roșu Notified by Romania. Official control on the market, reached the market, destroyed. Result 0,065+/- 0,012 (limit 0,02 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2025.9399 alertForeign object (glass shards) in diced peppers in cans from Turkey Notified by Germany. Company's own check, reached the market.
- 2025.4392 info: follow-uptetramethrin in green and red jalapenos (pepper) from Turkiye Notified by Italy. At the EU border, reached the market. tetramethrin
- 2025.2172 info: attentionformetanaat-hydrochloride in pepper from Turkey Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 0.39 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2025.1759 alertAcetamiprid in fresh chillies from Turkey Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,42 (limit 0,30 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2024.3430 info: attentionFlonicamid and etoxaczole on peppers from Turkey Notified by Luxembourg. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0.86 (limit 0.3 mg/kg - ppm). etoxazoleflonicamid
- 2024.3310 info: attentioncadmium in frozen yellow pepper strips Notified by Belgium. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 0,037 (limit 0,020 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2024.3182 alertForeign body in roasted red pepper strips Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, destroyed.
Data and downloads
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