Ukraine — Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products
Ukraine received 22 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 7 in 2024-Q4, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issue is clopidol. The list below gives the 20 most recent rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 5 carry the laboratory result and 15 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import poultry meat and poultry meat products from Ukraine
- 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
- Re-dispatched or destroyed 68%; not stated 27%; re-dispatched 5%. 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
- Hungary (22), of 22 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- December, August, June, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- clopidol (5).
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 |
|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 2 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 |
| 2024-Q3 | 3 |
| 2024-Q4 | 7 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 3 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.7055 Poor temperature control and rupture of the cold chain of chilled chicken breast fillet from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2026.4308 Poor temperature control and rupture of the cold chain of frozen chicken from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2025.10330 Poor temperature control and rupture of the cold chain of frozen chicken from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2025.6532 Poor temperature control and rupture of the cold chain of frozen chicken from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2025.4914 Poor temperature control and rupture of the cold chain of chilled chicken breast from Ukraine Notified by Hungary.
- 2025.4182 Break in the cold chain of frozen chicken meat from Ukraine Notified by Hungary.
- 2025.2849 Poor temperature control and rupture of the cold chain of frozen chicken meat from Ukraine Notified by Hungary.
- 2025.0859 Poor temperature control and rupture of the cold chain of frozen turkey meat from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2024.9613 Poor temperature control and rupture of the cold chain of frozen roasted half chicken from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2024.9611 Poor temperature control and rupture of the cold chain of frozen chicken meat from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2024.9514 Clopidol in frozen whole broiler chicken from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 10.788 (+/- 2,7166). clopidol
- 2024.9513 Clopidol in frozen broiler chicken leg meat from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 21.500 (+/- 4.5798). clopidol
- 2024.9512 Clopidol in frozen chicken breast fillet from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 25.858 (+/- 4,6699). clopidol
- 2024.9260 Clopidol in frozen chicken breast fillet from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 14,495 microgram/kg (+/-1,5182 microgram/kg). clopidol
- 2024.9254 Clopidol in frozen broiler chicken carcasses from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 14,495 microgram/kg (+/-1,5182 microgram/kg). clopidol
- 2024.6476 Cold chain breakdown and temperature failure during transportation of chilled chicken breast from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2024.6462 Cold chain breakdown and temperature failure during transportation of chilled poultry sausages from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2024.6243 Cold chain breakdown and temperature failure during transportation of chilled chicken meat from Ukraine Notified by Hungary.
- 2024.4557 Cold chain breakdown and temperature failure during transportation of chilled chicken meat from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2024.2621 Poor temperature control and rupture of the cold chain of frozen chicken meat from Ukraine Notified by Hungary.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 106 notifications since 2020 concerned poultry meat and poultry meat products from Ukraine found after entering the EU — 9 alerts, 97 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 66%, official control on the market 25%, company's own check 7%, monitoring or surveillance sample 3%. 1 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2021 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2022 | 11 | 4 | 7 |
| 2023 | 23 | 3 | 20 |
| 2024 | 18 | 1 | 17 |
| 2025 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026 to date | 35 | 0 | 35 |
- 2026.9393 info: attentionSalmonella Infantis in chilled chicken meat from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. At the EU border, reached the market. Result positive 5x /25. Salmonella infantis
- 2026.9133 info: attentionSalmonella Infantis in chilled chicken meat from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 5*positive. Salmonella infantis
- 2026.8988 info: attentionSalmonella Infantis in chilled chicken meat from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 5*positive. Salmonella infantis
- 2026.8980 info: attentionSalmonella Infantis in chilled chicken breast fillet from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. At the EU border, reached the market. Result positive 5x /25. Salmonella infantis
- 2026.8709 info: follow-upSalmonella spp. in frozen chicken thighs from Ukraine Notified by Czechia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result presence (limit none /25g). Salmonella infantisSalmonella spp.
- 2026.8670 info: attentionSalmonella Infantis in chilled chicken breast fillet from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. At the EU border, reached the market. Result positive (5x). Salmonella infantis
- 2026.8664 info: attentionSalmonella Infantis in chilled chicken breast from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 5x positive /25. Salmonella infantis
- 2026.8208 info: attentionSalmonella Infantis in chilled chicken breast from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 5x Pozitive /25. Salmonella infantis
- 2026.8207 info: attentionSalmonella Infantis in chilled chicken breast fillet from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 5x Pozitive. Salmonella infantis
- 2026.8180 info: attentionSalmonella Infantis w mięsie drobiowym z Ukrainy // Salmonella Infantis in poultry meat from Ukraine Notified by Poland. At the EU border, reached the market. Salmonella infantis
Data and downloads
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