Uganda — Fruits and Vegetables

Uganda received 16 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fruits and Vegetables between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2024-Q1, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are lambda-cyhalothrin, cypermethrin, and profenofos. The list below gives each of these 20 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 20 carry the laboratory result and 15 say what happened to the consignment.

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Key figures

If you import fruits and vegetables from Uganda

Chance a consignment is opened at the EU border: 50% of consignments get identity and physical checks for pesticide residues (Reg. (EU) 2019/1793).
If it is rejected: Destroyed 56%; re-dispatched or destroyed 19%; held, final fate not recorded 12%; not stated 12%. 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: Switzerland (4), Belgium (3), France (3), of 16 border rejections in the last 3 years.
Riskiest months: January, April, July, by rejections since 2020.
Test for before shipping: lambda-cyhalothrin (5), cypermethrin (3), profenofos (3), hexaconazole (2), omethoate (2).

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-Q4	2
2024-Q1	3
2024-Q2	1
2024-Q3	2
2024-Q4	1
2025-Q1	1
2025-Q2	0
2025-Q3	2
2025-Q4	0
2026-Q1	0
2026-Q2	3
2026-Q3	1

By commodity, last 156 weeks

Commodity	Rejections	1 rejection per	Per $1B EU imports	Most-cited hazard
Peppers & Chilies	15	—	1,756	lambda-cyhalothrin
Other Vegetables	1	—	—	thiamethoxam

"1 rejection per X t": tonnes of the same product imported for every one, over the same 156 weeks. A dash means fewer than 5 in the window, or under 1,000 t a year imported, too few to rate; the total row pools every product that has import tonnes on record.

Recent rejections

2026.7878 2026-09-07 Pesticides residues in aubergines from Uganda Notified by Belgium. Destroyed. Result 0.015 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). omethoatethiamethoxam
2026.3613 2026-04-24 Pesticides residues in chili peppers from Uganda Notified by Belgium. Result 0,81 (limit 0,5 mg/kg - ppm). cypermethrin
2026.3107 2026-04-13 Hexaconazole in peppers from Uganda Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.16 ± 0.08 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). hexaconazole
2026.2836 2026-04-02 Profenopfos in peppers from Uganda Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.051 ± 0.026 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). profenofos
2025.6529 2025-08-26 Pesticides in chili Notified by Sweden. Destroyed. Result 0.18 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). hexaconazole
2025.5712 2025-07-28 Pesticide residues (omethoate) in chili peppers from Uganda. Notified by Belgium. Destroyed. Result 0.016 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). omethoate
2025.0537 2025-01-27 Pesticides in fresh chili (capsicum) Notified by Sweden. Destroyed. Result 0.14 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). dimethoate
2024.9301 2024-12-17 Unauthorised substance lambda-cyhalothrin (0.39 mg/kg - ppm) in peppers (Capsicum spp.) from Uganda Notified by Switzerland. Destroyed. Result 0.39 (limit 0.1 mg/kg - ppm). lambda-cyhalothrin
2024.5438 2024-07-16 Pesticide residues (lambda-cyhalothrin) in fresh chili from Uganda. Notified by Finland. Reached the market, destroyed. Result 0,27 (limit 0.1 mg/kg - ppm). lambda-cyhalothrin
2024.5336 2024-07-12 Pesticides residues in peppers of the genus Capsicum (other than sweet) from Ouganda Notified by France. Result Profénophos 0.052±0.026 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). profenofos
2024.3845 2024-05-16 Pesticide residues (clothianidin and lambda-cyhalothrin) in fresh chili from Uganda. Notified by Finland. Destroyed. Result 0,091 (limit 0,04 mg/kg - ppm). clothianidinlambda-cyhalothrin
2024.1596 2024-03-06 Unauthorised substances (pesticides: lambda-cyhalothrin: 0.22 mg/kg - ppm and cypermethrin: 0.81 mg/kg - ppm) in peppers from Uganda Notified by Switzerland. Destroyed. Result 0.22 (limit 0.1 mg/kg - ppm). cypermethrinlambda-cyhalothrin
2024.1458 2024-02-29 Unauthorised substance carbendazim in chilly peppers from Uganda Notified by Greece. Result 0.30 ± 0.15 (95%) (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). carbendazim
2024.0217 2024-01-11 Unauthorised substance cypermethrin (1.6 mg/kg - ppm) in peppers (Capsicum spp.) from Uganda Notified by Switzerland. Destroyed. Result 1.6 (limit 0.5 mg/kg - ppm). cypermethrin
2023.8212 2023-11-28 Unauthorised substance lambda-cyhalothrine (0.36 mg/kg - ppm) in peppers (Capsicum spp.) from Uganda Notified by Switzerland. Result 0.36 (limit 0.1 mg/kg - ppm). lambda-cyhalothrin
2023.7689 2023-11-08 PRESENÇA DE RESIDUOS DE PESTICIDAS EM PIMENTOS DO UGANDA Notified by Portugal. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0,10. profenofos
2023.5716 2023-08-24 1.8 mg/kg Cypermethrin in peppers from Uganda Notified by Switzerland. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 1.8 (limit 0.5 mg/kg - ppm). cypermethrin
2023.5715 2023-08-23 0.21 mg/kg Lambda-Cyhalothrin in peppers from Uganda Notified by Switzerland. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.21 (limit 0,1 mg/kg - ppm). lambda-cyhalothrin
2023.3702 2023-06-01 0.23 mg/kg Lambda-Cyhalothrin in peppers from Uganda Notified by Switzerland. Result 0.23 (limit 0.1 mg/kg - ppm). lambda-cyhalothrin
2023.1125 2023-02-16 Pesticides residues in chili peppers from Uganda Notified by Belgium. Destroyed. Result 1.3 (limit 0.5 mg/kg - ppm). cypermethrin

Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications

Besides border rejections, 8 notifications since 2020 concerned fruits and vegetables from Uganda found after entering the EU — 4 alerts, 4 information notifications. They are not part of the rejection figures or rates above, which measure border controls.

How they were found: at the EU border 75%, official control on the market 25%. 2 led to a recall from consumers.

alerts information notifications

Show the numbers

Year	Total	Alerts	Information notifications
2020	0	0	0
2021	1	1	0
2022	2	0	2
2023	0	0	0
2024	1	1	0
2025	2	0	2
2026 to date	2	2	0

2026.7125 2026-08-11 alertPesticides residues in aubergines from Uganda Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.037 (limit 0.01 null). chlorpyrifoshexaconazolethiamethoxam
2026.6364 2026-07-16 alertPesticide residues in egg plants from Uganda Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.014 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). dimethoateprofenofosthiamethoxam
2025.5419 2025-07-16 info: attentiondimethoate and omethoate in green chillies from Uganda, via Germany. Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market, destroyed. Result 0.13 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). dimethoateomethoate
2025.0683 2025-01-31 info: attentionPesticides residues in passion fruit from Uganda Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0,018 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifosdithiocarbamates
2024.4397 2024-06-06 alertPesticides residues in chili peppers from Uganda Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0,023 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
2022.6730 2022-11-18 info: attention Pesticides residues in aubergines from Uganda Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.35 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
2022.2515 2022-04-29 info: attentionCarbendazim in green chili from Uganda Notified by Denmark. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,8 (limit 0,1 mg/kg - ppm). carbendazim
2021.0310 2021-01-20 alertPesticide residues in chilli peppers from Uganda Notified by Belgium. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0,012 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). dimethoate

Data and downloads

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