Ukraine — Milk and Milk Products
Ukraine received 4 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Milk and Milk Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume is roughly flat year-on-year. The list below gives each of these 5 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it; 3 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
- What happened to rejected consignments, last 3 years
- Re-dispatched or destroyed: 50%; Not stated: 50%. Source: RASFF Window notification records.
Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheese | 2 | — | — | — |
| Other | 1 | — | — | — |
| Fluid Milk & Yoghurt | 1 | — | — | — |
| Butter & Cream | 0 | — | — | — |
"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
- 2026.9607 Poor temperature control of frozen dairy products from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2026.5437 Poor temperature control (up to 8.3 °C) of chilled dairy products from Ukraine/ Poor temperature control and rupture of the cold chain of milk products from Ukraine Notified by Hungary.
- 2025.7868 Mouldy cheese from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2025.7640 Poor temperature control and rupture of the cold chain of frozen cottage cheese from Ukraine Notified by Hungary.
- 2022.3999 breaking the cold chain - ice cream Notified by Poland. Re-dispatched.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 4 notifications since 2020 concerned milk and milk 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: at the EU border 75%, monitoring or surveillance sample 25%.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- 2025.7010 info: follow-upTriclabendazole in milk from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. At the EU border. Result Triclabendazole: 15,2 ± 0,5 (limit 10 µg/kg - ppb). benzimidazole
- 2025.5371 alertChloramphenicol in milk powder from Ukraine // Chloramfenikol w mleku w proszku z UA // Notified by Poland. Monitoring or surveillance sample, reached the market, destroyed. Result 10.12 (limit 0.5 µg/kg - ppb). chloramphenicol
- 2024.4153 info: follow-upMercury in skimmed milk powder from Ukraine Notified by Hungary. At the EU border. Result 0,010 ± 0,001. mercury
- 2020.2525 info: attentionThe presence of an unauthorized substance - chloramphenicol - whey powder - dairy product Notified by Poland. At the EU border, reached the market, destroyed. Result 0,22 (limit 0 µg/kg - ppb). chloramphenicol
Data and downloads
Download all 9 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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