United Kingdom — Fruits and Vegetables

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United Kingdom received 1 RASFF border-rejection notification in Fruits and Vegetables between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are chlorate, perchlorate, and acephate. The list below gives each of these 6 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 2 carry the laboratory result and 1 says what happened to the consignment.

Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

By commodity, last 156 weeks

"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

• 2026.8101 2026-09-14 Poor temperature control in frozen hash browns from the United Kingdom // Ruptura de la cadena de frío en croquetas de patatas congeladas del Reino Unido Notified by Spain.
• 2022.0689 2022-02-04 Alimento no autorizado, vainas de Cyamopsis tetragonoloba de Reino Unido Unauthorised novel food (Cyamopsis pods) from United Kingdom Notified by Spain.
• 2021.6440 2021-11-26 Aditivo no autorizado (E101 Riboflavina) en guisantes procesados de Reino Unido/ Unauthorised additive ( E-101 Riboflavins) in baked peas from UK. Notified by Spain.
• 2021.5990 2021-11-05 perchlorate (3.8 mg/kg - ppm) and unauthorised substance chlorate (1.16 mg/kg - ppm) in organic powdered kale from the United Kingdom Notified by Malta. Destroyed. Result 1.6 (limit 0.2 mg/kg - ppm). chlorateperchlorate
• 2021.1880 2021-04-28 FRIJOLES-ESPECIE NO AUTORIZADA DE UK / BEANS-UNAUTHORIZED SPECIES FROM UK Notified by Spain.
• 2020.1126 2020-03-09 Acephate in Green Beans Notified by United Kingdom. Result 0.05 (limit 0.01 mg/kg - ppm). acephate

Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications

Besides border rejections, 15 notifications since 2020 concerned fruits and vegetables from United Kingdom found after entering the EU — 8 alerts, 7 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 53%, company's own check 20%, consumer complaint or illness 20%, at the EU border 7%. 8 led to a recall from consumers.

alerts information notifications

• 2026.7581 2026-08-27 alertPatulin in apple chips from the UK Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, reached the market. Result 110 (limit 25 µg/kg - ppb). patulin
• 2025.8362 2025-10-28 info: follow-upPotato not presented to customs in France Notified by France. At the EU border.
• 2024.8926 2024-12-03 info: attentionFlonicamid in cauliflower from the United Kingdom, via the Netherlands Notified by Czechia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,89 (limit 0,03 mg/kg - ppm). flonicamid
• 2024.8145 2024-11-05 info: attentionExcess Bromide in celery from the UK via the Netherlands Notified by Belgium. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 54 (limit 30 mg/kg - ppm). bromide
• 2024.7551 2024-10-15 info: attentionExceedance of Fosetyl-Al in Faba Beans (whole broad beans) Notified by Malta. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 8.6 (limit 2 mg/kg - ppm). fosetyl and phosphonates
• 2023.7450 2023-10-31 alertchloorpyrifos-ethyl in Black Eye beans Notified by Netherlands. Official control on the market, reached the market, destroyed. Result 0.028 ± 0,014 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2023.4499 2023-07-05 alertChlorpyrifos in black-eyed peas from the United Kingdom, via the Netherlands Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,044 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2022.3690 2022-06-23 alertUnauthorised substance chlorpyrifos in yellow lentils Notified by Denmark. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,14 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifos
• 2022.0996 2022-02-21 info: attentionPiece of glass in strawberry jam from the United Kingdom Notified by Greece. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market.
• 2022.0614 2022-02-02 info: attentionMouse in Frozen Fine Whole Green Beans, from the United Kingdom Notified by Cyprus. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market.