Ukraine — Fish and Fish Products
Ukraine received 6 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fish and Fish Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is newly active in the last year. The list below gives each of these 7 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it; 2 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import fish and fish 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
- Not stated 100%. 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 (5), of 5 border rejections in the last 3 years.
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 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 2 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other Fish/Seafood | 5 | — | — | — |
"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
- 2026.6949 Poor temperature control and rupture of the cold chain of frozen fish from Ukraine Notified by Hungary.
- 2026.5100 Cold chain breakdown and temperature failure during transportation of frozen fish and frozen bakery products from Ukraine Notified by Hungary.
- 2024.4228 Cold chain breakdown and temperature failure during transportation of frozen fish from Ukraine Notified by Hungary.
- 2024.2448 Cold chain breakdown and temperature failure during transportation of frozen fish from Ukraine Notified by Hungary.
- 2024.0850 Cold chain breakdown and temperature failure during transportation of frozen fish from Ukraine Notified by Hungary.
- 2023.7049 Temperature failure of frozen fishery products from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched.
- 2023.4899 Temperature failure in fish products from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 4 notifications since 2020 concerned fish and fish products from Ukraine found after entering the EU — 1 alerts, 3 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 50%, company's own check 25%, at the EU border 25%. 1 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- 2024.7248 info: attentionListeria monocytogenes in Atlantic salmon, from Ukraine with raw material from Norway. Notified by Romania. Company's own check, reached the market, destroyed. Result 5 (limit absent /25g). Listeria monocytogenes
- 2022.7202 info: attentionExceeded sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate, undeclared sweetener - acesulfame K, the use of anauthorized sweetener cyclamates in Seafood cocktail in brine from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Official control on the market, reached the market, re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 2100 x 420 (limit 1000 mg/kg - ppm). E 200 - sorbic acidE 210 - benzoic acidsweetener E 950 - acesulfame ksweetener E 954 - saccharin
- 2022.5876 alertExceeded level of benzo (a) pyrene and total PAHs - dwarf catfish smoked in vegetable oil(Ameiurus nebulosus) Notified by Poland. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 4,1 +/- 0,9 (limit 2,0 µg/kg - ppb). benzo(a)pyrenepolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons sum of
- 2020.3067 info: attentionMercury in frozen catfish Notified by Hungary. At the EU border. Result 0,614 (limit 0,5 mg/kg - ppm). mercury
Data and downloads
Download all 11 entries (CSV) — every notification behind this page, border rejections and those found on the market, with how each was found and what was done.
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Ukraine country report since 2020 — all notification types, not just border rejections →