United Kingdom — Meat and Meat Products (Other Than Poultry) — Sheep & Goat
United Kingdom received 7 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Sheep & Goat, part of Meat and Meat Products (Other Than Poultry) between 2025-Q1 and 2025-Q3. Volume peaked at 4 in 2025-Q2. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 3.1 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from United Kingdom over the last 3 years. The list below gives each of these 7 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it; 2 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import sheep & goat from United Kingdom
- 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).
- Rejections against import volume
- On average, 1 border rejection per 37,218 tonnes imported into the EU over the last 3 years (EU import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- If it is rejected
- Not stated 71%; destroyed 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
- France (7), 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 3 quarters
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| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2025-Q1 | 2 |
| 2025-Q2 | 4 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 |
Recent rejections
- 2025.5213 Presence of parasites in sheep lungs from the United Kingdom Notified by France. Destroyed.
- 2025.4108 Presence of parasites in sheep liver from the United Kingdom Notified by France. Destroyed.
- 2025.3799 Parasites similar to a large fluke in sheep livers from the United Kingdom Notified by France.
- 2025.3052 parasites similar to a large fluke in sheep livers from the United Kingdom Notified by France.
- 2025.2471 Fasciola hepatica in sheep livers from the United Kingdom Notified by France.
- 2025.2262 Parasites similar to a large fluke in sheep livers from the United Kingdom Notified by France.
- 2025.1511 parasites similar to a large fluke in sheep livers from the United Kingdom Notified by France.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 15 notifications since 2020 concerned sheep & goat from United Kingdom found after entering the EU — 2 alerts, 13 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 87%, monitoring or surveillance sample 7%, company's own check 7%.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- 2025.2618 info: attentionlead in sheep livers Notified by France. Monitoring or surveillance sample, reached the market. Result 1 (limit 0,2 mg/kg - ppm). lead
- 2025.0707 info: follow-upHigh lead content in sheep liver Notified by France. At the EU border. Result 0.28 (limit 0.20 mg/kg - ppm). lead
- 2025.0557 info: attentionLead detected in sheep liver from the UK Notified by France. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.50+/- 0.09 (limit 0,20 mg/kg - ppm). lead
- 2024.9646 info: attentionLead in sheep liver from the United Kingdom Notified by France. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.27 (+/- U) 0.05 (limit 0.20 mg/kg - ppm). lead
- 2024.4630 alertlead in sheep offal (Ovis aries) from the United Kingdom Notified by France. At the EU border. Result 0.52 mg/kg +/- 0.09 (limit 0.2 null). lead
- 2024.3576 info: attentionanthelmintics in sheep muscle Notified by France. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 1767. Closantel
- 2024.3444 info: attentionSheep liver Notified by France. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.41. lead
- 2024.2558 info: attentionNon-compliant levels of lead in sheep livers Notified by France. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0,29 (limit 0.20 mg/kg - ppm). lead
- 2024.2449 info: attentionNon-compliant levels of lead in sheep livers Notified by France. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.29 +/- 0.05 (limit 0.20 mg/kg - ppm). lead
- 2024.2407 info: attentionNon- compliant levels of lead in sheep liver from UK Notified by France. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 0.43 (limit 0.20 mg/kg - ppm). lead
Data and downloads
Download all 22 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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