United Kingdom — Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products
United Kingdom received 7 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Poultry Meat and Poultry Meat Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is roughly flat year-on-year. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 8.7 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from United Kingdom over the last 3 years. The list below gives each of these 11 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it; 5 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import poultry meat and poultry meat products from United Kingdom
Lower risk. United Kingdom ranks 3rd of 3 origins shipping poultry meat and poultry meat products to the EU on border rejections per $1 billion of EU imports, at 8.7 — the lowest of them.
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- 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 43%; destroyed 29%; held, final fate not recorded 29%. 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
- Netherlands (3), Spain (3), European Commission (1), of 7 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 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.7793 rotura cadena de frío en carne de pollo congelada procedente de Reino Unido // Break in the cold chain for frozen chicken from the United Kingdom Notified by Spain.
- 2025.8312 Feather remnants on chicken carcasses from the UK. Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2025.8311 Feather remnants on chicken carcasses from the UK. Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2025.5441 poor temperature control - rupture of the cold chain - of chilled chicken meat from the United Kingdom Notified by European Commission. Destroyed.
- 2025.2523 rotura cadena de frío en carne de pollo congelada de Reino Unido // cold chain break in frozen poultry meat fromUK Notified by Spain. Reached the market, destroyed.
- 2024.9359 Rotura cadena de frío en pollo de Reino Unido / UK chicken poor temperature control Notified by Spain.
- 2024.3381 Hygiene failure in chicken carcass bones and skin. Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed.
- 2022.1326 Poultry meat from non approved region and sensory check failure. Notified by Netherlands.
- 2021.5608 Physical check not satisfactory Notified by Netherlands.
- 2021.4402 Hygiene failure edible chicken carcass bone and skin Notified by Netherlands.
- 2021.3250 invalid certificate on poultry meat preparations from United Kingdom Notified by Spain.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 14 notifications since 2020 concerned poultry meat and poultry meat products from United Kingdom found after entering the EU — 5 alerts, 9 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 36%, at the EU border 29%, company's own check 29%, other 7%. 1 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 to date | 2 | 1 | 1 |
- 2026.8601 alertDetection of Salmonella in chicken Sausages from UK Notified by France. At the EU border, reached the market. Salmonella
- 2026.3259 info: attentionTurkey Breast Pastrami in which Listeria monocytogenes has been detected Notified by France. Company's own check, reached the market. Result Detected. Listeria monocytogenes
- 2025.5995 alertExceedance of the MRL for dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs in wild game meat (duck) Notified by France. At the EU border, reached the market, re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 2.99 +/- 0.60 pg TEQ/g (limit 2.0 pg TEQ/g null). dioxins
- 2024.8468 info: attentionSalmonella and E.coli in chicken, from the UK Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result present (limit absent /25g). Salmonellae.coli
- 2024.8445 info: attentionSalmonella and E.coli in Chicken from UK Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result detected (limit not detected /25g). Salmonella sppe.coli
- 2024.8317 info: attentionSalmonella spp. in poultry meat Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result Present (limit Not present /25g). SalmonellaSalmonella Mbandaka
- 2023.6401 info: attentionSalmonella typhimurium in chicken from United Kingdom Notified by Netherlands. Other, not on the market.
- 2023.0703 alertchloramphenicol detected in chilled chicken from the UK Notified by France. At the EU border, reached the market.
- 2023.0161 info: attentionMustard detected in a batch of chicken en croute Notified by Ireland. Official control on the market, reached the market. mustard
- 2022.6639 info: follow-upAnticoccidial residues in frozen poultry meat Notified by France. At the EU border, reached the market. veterinary drug residues
Data and downloads
Download all 25 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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