United Arab Emirates — Nuts, Nut Products and Seeds
United Arab Emirates received 9 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Nuts, Nut Products and Seeds between 2023-Q3 and 2026-Q2. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q1, with the trend newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are Aflatoxin B1, aflatoxin total, and Aflatoxin. The list below gives each of these 12 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 10 carry the laboratory result and 10 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import nuts, nut products and seeds from United Arab Emirates
- 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 89%; held, final fate not recorded 11% (37 tonnes in all). 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
- Italy (8), Spain (1), of 9 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- January, April, December, by rejections since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- aflatoxins (9).
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-Q3 | 0 |
| 2023-Q4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 5 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pistachio | 9 | — | 391.3 | aflatoxin total |
| Sesame | 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
- 2026.3400 Aflatoxins above legal limits in shelled pistachios from United Arab Emirates Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 29.5 ± 3.2 (limit 8 µg/kg - ppb). Aflatoxin B1aflatoxin total
- 2026.3395 Aflatoxins exceeding permitted limits in pistachio kernels originating from the United Arab Emirates Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 292,3 ± 12,7 (limit 8 µg/kg - ppb). Aflatoxin B1aflatoxin total
- 2026.2587 presenza oltre i limiti di aflatossina B1 e somma di aflatossine in pistacchi sgusciati origine Emirati Arabi Uniti/ Presence of aflatoxin B1 above the limits and sum of aflatoxins in shelled pistachios originating from the United Arab Emirates Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 30+-1 e 34,9+-1,2 (limit 10 µg/kg - ppb). Aflatoxins B1aflatoxin total
- 2026.0715 Aflatossine oltre i limiti consentiti in Pistacchi sgusciati Origine/Spedizione Emirati Arabi Uniti /Aflatoxins above permitted limits in shelled pistachios Origin/Shipping United Arab Emirates Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 80,4 ± 5,4 (limit 8 µg/kg - ppb). Aflatoxin B1aflatoxin total
- 2026.0692 Aflatossine oltre i limiti consentiti in Pistacchi sgusciati Origine/Spedizione Emirati Arabi Uniti / Aflatoxins above permitted limits in shelled pistachios Origin/Shipping United Arab Emirates Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 10,9 ± 1,0 (limit 8,0 µg/kg - ppb). Aflatoxin B1aflatoxin total
- 2026.0665 Aflatossine oltre i limiti consentiti in Pistacchi sgusciati Origine Emirati Arabi Uniti///Aflatoxins exceed permitted limits in shelled pistachios originating from the United Arab Emirates Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 14,9±5,2 (limit 8 µg/kg - ppb). Aflatoxin B1aflatoxin total
- 2026.0164 Aflatossine oltre i limiti consentiti in Pistacchi sgusciati Origine/Spedizione Emirati Arabi Uniti/Aflatoxins above permitted limits in shelled pistachios Origin/Shipping United Arab Emirates Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 19,6 ± 1,8 (limit 8,0 µg/kg - ppb). Aflatoxin B1aflatoxin total
- 2025.10269 Aflatossine oltre i limiti consentiti in Pistacchi sgusciati da Emirati Arabi Uniti/ Aflatoxins exceed permitted limits in shelled pistachios from the United Arab Emirates Notified by Italy. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result (B1= 58,6+/- 3,9 Total =73,3 +/- 4,0) (B1=41,7+/2,7 Total=46,5+/-2,7) (limit B1 = 8 Tota… Aflatoxin
- 2024.3163 Aflatoxinas en pistachos de Turquía. Aflatoxins in pistachios from Turkey. Notified by Spain. Result 13.8 (limit 10 µg/kg - ppb). Aflatoxin B1aflatoxin total
- 2022.7434 Label/Document mismatch about origin in sesame seeds from U.A.E. Notified by Greece. Re-dispatched.
- 2022.7432 Label/document mismatch about origin in sesame seeds from U.A.E. Notified by Greece. Re-dispatched.
- 2022.2249 Aflatossine in pistacchi sgusciati dagli Emirati Arabi//Aflatoxins in pistachios kernels from the United Arab Emirates Notified by Italy. Result 679.9 (limit 15 µg/kg - ppb). Aflatoxin B1aflatoxin total
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 3 notifications since 2020 concerned nuts, nut products and seeds from United Arab Emirates found after entering the EU — 1 alerts, 2 information notifications. They are not part of the rejection figures or rates above, which measure border controls.
How they were found: company's own check 67%, official control on the market 33%. 1 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 to date | 1 | 1 | 0 |
- 2026.4469 alertdepasire LMA Ochtatoxina A in fistic granule//////exceeding the limit Octatoxin A in pistachio granules Notified by Romania. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 89.10 (limit 5 µg/kg - ppb). ochratoxin A
- 2024.1950 info: attentionDetection of a pesticide on fennel seeds Notified by France. Company's own check, not on the market, re-dispatched. Result 0,12 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
- 2024.1417 info: attentionChlorate in sesame from the United Arab Emirates Notified by Germany. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 0,40 (limit 0,05 mg/kg - ppm). chlorate
Data and downloads
Download all 15 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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