Ukraine — Fruits and Vegetables
Ukraine received 17 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are moulds, folpet, and bifenthrin. The list below gives each of these 20 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 7 carry the laboratory result and 18 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import fruits and vegetables 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 89%; held, final fate not recorded 5%; not stated 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
- Poland (18), Czechia (1), of 19 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- August, October, June, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- moulds (4), folpet (2), anthraquinone (1), bifenthrin (1), chlorpyrifos (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 | 2 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 5 |
| 2026-Q4 | 2 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berries & Grapes | 14 | 853 t | 198.0 | moulds |
| Other | 3 | — | — | moulds |
| Other Vegetables | 1 | — | — | — |
| Stone Fruit | 1 | — | — | folpet |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 16 | 5,447 t |
"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
- 2026.9336 stwierdzenie obecności pleśni w mrożonej malinie na grys, kraj pochodzenia Ukraina // detection of mold in frozen raspberries from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. moulds
- 2026.8727 Niezgodność pomiędzy informacjami w dokumentach i na etykietach mrożonej czarnej jagody///Discrepancy between information in documents and on labels for frozen blueberries from Ukraine. Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched.
- 2026.7555 perchlorates in frozen raspberries from Ukraine //nadchlorany w malinie mrożonej z Ukrainy Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. Result 0,13±0,07 (limit 0,05 mg/kg - ppm). perchlorate
- 2026.7458 Incorrect certification of frozen blueberries from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched.
- 2026.7457 Brak orginału świadectwa urzędowego dla jagody czarnej mrożonej z Ukrainy/// There is no original official certificate for frozen blackberries from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched.
- 2026.7433 Incorrect certification of frozen blueberries from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched.
- 2026.7425 Incorrect certification of frozen blueberries from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched.
- 2026.4500 Incorrect official certificate in frozen blueberries from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched.
- 2025.8884 Nieprawidłowości w świadectwie urzędowym oraz brak wyników pobierania próbek i analiz // Irregularities in the official certificate and lack of sampling and analysis results Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched.
- 2025.6981 exceeding MRL residue values of the pesticide - Folpet - result: 0.28 ± 0.14 mg/kg in frozen raspberries from Ukraine // folpet (suma folpetu i ftalimidu wyrażona jako folpet) - wynik: 0,28 ± 0,14 mg/kg w malinie mrożonej, pochodzącej z Ukrainy Notified by Poland. Reached the market. Result 0,28 ± 0,14 mg/kg (limit 0,03 mg/kg - ppm). folpet
- 2025.0295 different batch numbers in the official certificate and on packages for frozen cranberries from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched.
- 2024.8913 Ethylene oxide in frozen organic raspberries from Ukraine Notified by Czechia. Result 0,10 (limit 0,02 mg/kg - ppm). ethylene oxide
- 2024.6013 obecność pleśni w malinie mrożonej z Ukrainy // presence of mold in frozen raspberries from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. moulds
- 2024.4763 different batch numbers in the official certificate and on individual packages for fresh chanterelle mushroom from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched.
- 2024.4414 spirodiklofen w ilości 2,1 ± 1,05 mg/kg w malinie mrożonej z Ukrainy//spirodiclofen in an amount of 2.1 ± 1.05 mg/kg in frozen raspberries from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. Result 2,1 ± 1,05 (limit 0,02 mg/kg - ppm). spirodiclofen
- 2024.1787 Oznaki zapleśnienia oraz zanieczyszczenia organiczne i 1 element tworzywa sztucznego w malinie mrożonej z Ukrainy/// Signs of mold, organic contamination and plastic in frozen raspberries from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. moulds
- 2024.0685 Przekroczenie najwyższego dopuszczalnego poziomu pozostałości środków ochrony roślin bifentryny oraz chloropiryfosu w suszonym owocu jabłoni // Exceeding maximum residue level of plant protection products bifenthrin and chlorpyrifos in dried apple fruit Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. Result 0,060 ± 0,030 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). bifenthrinchlorpyrifos
- 2023.7572 obecność szkodników oraz pleśni w dzikiej mrożonej róży z Ukrainy//presence of pests and molds in wild frozen rose from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. moulds
- 2023.7384 Anthraquinone (0,45+/-0,23 mg/kg) and folpet (0,95+/-0,47 mg/kg) in dried plums from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. Result 0,45+/-0,23 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). anthraquinonefolpet
- 2023.7255 Pesticide residues (bifenthrin and novaluron) in dried plums from Ukraine Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched. Result 0,044 +/- 0,022 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). bifenthrinnovaluron
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 14 notifications since 2020 concerned fruits and vegetables from Ukraine found after entering the EU — 3 alerts, 11 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 29%, consumer complaint or illness 29%, company's own check 21%, official control on the market 14%, monitoring or surveillance sample 7%. 2 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 to date | 1 | 0 | 1 |
- 2026.3716 info: attentionDepasire LMA fipronil in morcovi proaspeti origine Ucraina/Exceeding the MRL in carrots from Ukraine Notified by Romania. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0,021±0,011 (limit 0,005 mg/kg - ppm). fipronil
- 2025.8949 alertChlorpyrifos in soyabean for crushing from Ukraine Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check. Result 0,032 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2025.3525 info: attentionPresence of worms in green pickled tomatoes from Ukraine Notified by Latvia. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market.
- 2025.0854 info: follow-upUnauthorised substance chlorpyrifos in frozen wild strawberry from Ukraine via Belgium Notified by Denmark. Monitoring or surveillance sample, reached the market. Result 0,018 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2024.8867 info: follow-uphigh content of benzoic acid in frozen organic cranberries originating from Ukraine Notified by Slovakia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 597. E 210 - benzoic acid
- 2024.8603 info: attentionChlorpyrifos in apples from Ukraine Notified by Belgium. Official control on the market, not on the market. Result 0,039 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2024.8442 info: follow-upChlorpyrifos in frozen raspberries from Ukraine, via Germany Notified by Belgium. Company's own check, re-dispatched. Result 0,015 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). bifenazatechlorpyrifosflutriafol
- 2024.5740 alertForeign bodies (stones) in frozen wild blueberries from Ukraine, via Poland Notified by Germany. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market.
- 2024.1891 info: attentionExceeding of MRL for propargite in fresh apples from Ukraine Notified by Romania. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.062±0.031 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). propargite
- 2024.1641 info: attentionExceeding of MRL for chlorpyrifos in apples, origin Ukraine Notified by Romania. At the EU border, reached the market, destroyed. Result 0.057±0.029 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
Data and downloads
Download all 45 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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