Turkey — Fruits and Vegetables — Stone Fruit
Turkey received 10 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Stone Fruit, part of Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 4 in 2025-Q2, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are E220- sulfur dioxide, ochratoxin A, and sulphite. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 8.7 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Turkey over the last 3 years. The list below gives each of these 18 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 17 carry the laboratory result and 14 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import stone fruit 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).
- Rejections against import volume
- On average, 1 border rejection per 28,576 tonnes imported into the EU over the last 3 years (EU import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- If it is rejected
- Destroyed 50%; re-dispatched 30%; held, final fate not recorded 20%. 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
- Croatia (4), Poland (3), Bulgaria (1), of 10 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- June, August, January, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- ochratoxin A (3), chlorothalonil (2), sulphites (2), aflatoxins (1), dimethoate (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 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 4 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 2 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.8893 Stwierdzenie przekroczenia dopuszczalnej zawartości dwutlenku siarki E220 w morelach suszonych kraj pochodzenia Turcja // Exceedance of the permissible level of sulfur dioxide (E220) in dried apricots from Turkey Notified by Poland. Result 2620±450 (limit 2000 mg/kg - ppm). E220- sulfur dioxide
- 2026.7502 Etoxazole in peach from Turkey Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,084. etoxazole
- 2026.7341 High content of nickel in nectarine from Turkye Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,238. nickel
- 2025.6438 chlorothalonil in fresh tomato-cherry from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0,910+/-0,455 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorothalonil
- 2025.4465 Dimethoate in peaches from Turkey Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,329. dimethoate
- 2025.4421 Too much ochratoxin A in dried organic apricots from Turkey. Notified by Finland. Re-dispatched. Result 5,7 (limit 2,0 µg/kg - ppb). ochratoxin A
- 2025.4415 Ochratoxine A in dried apricot from Türkiye Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. Result 20,69 +/- 4,14 (limit 2 µg/kg - ppb). ochratoxin A
- 2025.3841 Aflatoksyna B1 (3,05±0,55 µg/kg) i ochratoksyna A (7,33±1,03 µg/kg) w morelach suszonych z Turcji // Aflatoxin B1 (3.05±0.55 µg/kg) and ochratoxin A (7.33±1.03 µg/kg) in dried apricots from Turkey Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. Result 7,33±1,03 (limit 2 µg/kg - ppb). Aflatoxin B1ochratoxin A
- 2024.4016 Pesticide residues of Chlorothalonil in apricot from Turkye Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,085±0,043 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorothalonil
- 2024.0937 High content of sulphur dioxide in dried apricots from Türkiye Notified by Greece. Result 2230+/-106 (limit 2.000 mg/kg - ppm). E220- sulfur dioxide
- 2022.7353 methyl chlorpyrifos in frozen semi-dried tomatoes "cherry" from Turkey Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.19 +/-0.1 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos-methyl
- 2022.1386 Too high content of sulfur dioxide in dried apricots from Turkey Notified by Slovakia. Re-dispatched. Result 2634 (limit 2000 mg/kg - ppm). E220- sulfur dioxide
- 2021.4960 too high content of cyanide in apricot kernels from Turkey Notified by Bulgaria. Re-dispatched. Result 2996 +/- 719 (limit 20 mg/kg - ppm). cyanide
- 2020.4692 too high content of sulphite (2186 mg/kg - ppm) in dried apricots from Turkey Notified by Slovakia. Re-dispatched. Result 2186 (limit 2000 mg/kg - ppm). sulphite
- 2020.3630 Zu hoher Gehalt an Sulfit in getrockneten Aprikosen aus der Türkei /// Too high content of sulfite in dried apricots from Turkey Notified by Germany. Result 2400 (limit 2000 mg/kg - ppm). E220- sulfur dioxide
- 2020.1207 Sulphite -Dried apricots-Turkey Notified by Bulgaria. Re-dispatched. Result 3429+/-686 (limit 2000 mg/kg - ppm). sulphite
- 2020.0413 too high content of sulphites in dried apricots from Turkey Notified by France. Result 2866+-287 (limit 2000 mg/kg - ppm). sulphite
- 2020.0025 Rejection of dried apricots due to lack of CED Notified by United Kingdom. Reached the market, re-dispatched.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 40 notifications since 2020 concerned stone fruit from Turkey found after entering the EU — 12 alerts, 28 information notifications. They are not part of the rejection figures or rates above, which measure border controls.
How they were found: company's own check 50%, official control on the market 40%, at the EU border 5%, consumer complaint or illness 2%, monitoring or surveillance sample 2%. 4 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2023 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 10 |
| 2025 | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| 2026 to date | 7 | 3 | 4 |
- 2026.8453 alertOchratoxin A in dried organic apricot cubes from Türkiye Notified by Germany. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 9,7 (limit 2,0 µg/kg - ppb). ochratoxin A
- 2026.8223 info: attentionDepasire LMA pesticide in rosii Cherry origine Turcia /////Exceeding of MRL for pesticides in Cherry tomatoes, or. Turkey Notified by Romania. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0.21 (limit 0.06 mg/kg - ppm). acetamipridindoxacarb
- 2026.7801 info: attentionAflatoxins in dried apricots, from Turkiye Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market, re-dispatched. Result 15,0 (limit 4,0 µg/kg - ppb). Aflatoxin B1aflatoxin total
- 2026.7085 alertAflatoxins and Ochratoxin A in dried, chopped organic apricots from Turkey Notified by Germany. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 8,4 (limit 4 µg/kg - ppb). aflatoxin totalochratoxin A
- 2026.4372 info: follow-upstwierdzenie obecności DNA specyficznego werotoksycznych Escherichia coli (STEC) w morelach suszonych pochodzących z Turcji /// Detection of specific DNA of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC) in dried apricots from Turkey via Spain Notified by Poland. Company's own check. Result Detected. Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing suspicion
- 2026.3108 info: attentionHigh levels of aflatoxins and ochratoxins found in sulphite-free dried apricots from Turkey Notified by France. Company's own check. Result 12,2 (limit 4 µg/kg - ppb). aflatoxin totalochratoxin A
- 2026.2535 alertAflatoxins and ochratoxins in dried apricots from Turkiye Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 2,8 (limit 2,0 µg/kg - ppb). Aflatoxin B1aflatoxin totalochratoxin A
- 2025.9798 info: follow-upElevated levels of sorbic acid in a batch of soft apricots Notified by Ireland. At the EU border. Result 1371 (limit 1000 mg/kg - ppm). E 200 - sorbic acid
- 2025.9599 alertOchratoxin A in diced apricots from Turkey Notified by Germany. Company's own check. Result 7,6 ± 40 % (limit 2 µg/kg - ppb). ochratoxin A
- 2025.8420 alertforeign object: pieces of pit between apricot pieces from Türkiye Notified by Netherlands. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market, destroyed.
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