Turkey — Fruits and Vegetables — Other Vegetables
Turkey received 25 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Other Vegetables, part of Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q2, with the trend rising year-on-year. The most-cited issues are indoxacarb, acetamiprid, and formetanate. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 16.9 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 other vegetables from Turkey
Lower risk. Turkey ranks 7th of 8 origins shipping other vegetables to the EU on border rejections per $1 billion of EU imports, at 16.9 — above 14% 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 47,190 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 4.7 t (median of 14 lot weights recorded at the border). Across origins of this product they run from 0.1 t (Sri Lanka) to 4.7 t (Turkey), so compare the rate per tonne, not the count of rejections.
- If it is rejected
- Destroyed 72%; re-dispatched 24%; held, final fate not recorded 4%. 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 (14), Croatia (8), Greece (2), of 25 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- September, October, January, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- indoxacarb (13), acetamiprid (7), formetanate (2), buprofezin (1), cadmium (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 |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 4 |
| 2024-Q4 | 2 |
| 2025-Q1 | 2 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 3 |
| 2025-Q4 | 3 |
| 2026-Q1 | 3 |
| 2026-Q2 | 5 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.8919 Acetamiprid in fresh tomatoes from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.330+/-0.165 (limit 0.06 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2026.7898 Etoxazole and Indoxacarb in fresh tomatoes from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.024+/-0.012 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). etoxazoleindoxacarb
- 2026.5282 Indoxacarb in fresh tomatoes from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0,162+/-0,081 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). indoxacarb
- 2026.3878 Indoxacarb in fresh tomatoes from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.114+/-0.057 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). indoxacarb
- 2026.3711 acetamiprid and Indoxacarb in fresh tomatoes from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.230+/-0.115 (limit 0.06 mg/kg - ppm). acetamipridindoxacarb
- 2026.3357 Indoxacarb in fresh tomatoes from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.143+/-0.072 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). indoxacarb
- 2026.3008 Acetamiprid in fresh tomatoes from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.259+/-0.130 (limit 0.06 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2026.2439 Acetamiprid and Indoxacarb in fresh tomatoes from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Re-dispatched. Result 0.041+/-0.021 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). acetamipridindoxacarb
- 2026.0958 Indoxacarb in fresh tomatoes from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Re-dispatched. Result 0,117+/-0,059 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). indoxacarb
- 2026.0078 Residues of the pesticide formetanate in eggplant from Turkey Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,93. formetanate
- 2025.9745 Acetamiprid in fresh tomatoes from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Re-dispatched. Result 0.175+/-0.088 (limit 0.06 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2025.7949 Fosthiazate in fresh domatoes from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.105+/- 0.053 (limit 0.02 mg/kg - ppm). fosthiazate
- 2025.7769 acetamiprid in fresh domates from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Re-dispatched. Result 0.205+-0.103 (limit 0.06 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2025.7084 Acetamiprid in fresh domatoes from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Destroyed. Result 0.370 +/- 0.185 (limit 0.06 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2025.7083 Formetanate in tomatoes from Türkiye Notified by Bulgaria. Re-dispatched. Result 0.937+/-0.469 (limit 0.3 mg/kg - ppm). formetanate
- 2025.6901 Indoxacarb in tomatoes from Turkiye Notified by Greece. Re-dispatched. Result 0.025±0.013 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). indoxacarb
- 2025.1535 Indoxacarb in tomatoes from Turkey Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,11 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). indoxacarb
- 2025.0564 Pesticides residues of Indoxacarb in tomatoes from Turkey Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,027. indoxacarb
- 2024.8493 Indoxacarb in Tomatoes from Turkiye via Bulgaria Notified by Greece. Destroyed. Result 0.2±0.1 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). indoxacarb
- 2024.7526 High content of cadmium and chlorpyrifos in tomatoes from Turkey Notified by Croatia. Destroyed. Result 0,079. cadmiumchlorpyrifos
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 44 notifications since 2020 concerned other vegetables from Turkey found after entering the EU — 5 alerts, 39 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 68%, company's own check 20%, monitoring or surveillance sample 5%, at the EU border 5%, consumer complaint or illness 2%. 5 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 13 | 2 | 11 |
| 2023 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2024 | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026 to date | 6 | 1 | 5 |
- 2026.7683 alertPesticide residues in sun-dried tomatoes diced from Turkiye Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check. Result 8,130 (limit 1,4 mg/kg - ppm). chlorate
- 2026.6313 info: attentionEpoxidised soy bean oil (ESBO) in excess of the maximum specific migration level permitted in sundried tomatoes in oil Notified by Ireland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 116 +/- 7 (limit 60 mg/kg - ppm). epoxidised soybean oil (ESBO)
- 2026.3729 info: attentionPesticide residues in cucumber Notified by Switzerland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0.02 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). etoxazoleformetanate
- 2026.3542 info: attentionBacillus cereus in tomatoes from Türkiye Notified by Germany. Company's own check. Result 200.000 KbE. Bacillus cereus
- 2026.1215 info: attentionUnauthorised pesticide indoxacarbe in eggplants from Türkiye Notified by Austria. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,036 ± 0,018 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). indoxacarb
- 2026.1146 info: attentionAcetamiprid in locust beans from Turkey Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,16 (limit 0,050 mg/kg - ppm). acetamiprid
- 2025.9126 info: attentionFosthiazate in cucumbers from Türkiye Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,10 (limit 0,02 mg/kg - ppm). fosthiazate
- 2025.6045 info: attentionDepasirea limitei maxime admise pentru linuron in morcovi origine Turcia/Exceeding the maximum permitted limit for linuron in carrots from Turkey Notified by Romania. Company's own check, reached the market, destroyed. Result 0.29 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). linuron
- 2025.4901 info: attentionListeria monocytogenes in blackened olives with garlic from Turkey Notified by Germany. Company's own check, reached the market. Result detected. Listeria monocytogenes
- 2025.3262 info: attention4-Chlorophenoxyacetic acid in courgettes from Türkiye, via Germany Notified by Austria. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,027 ± 0,014 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). 4-CPA
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