United Kingdom — Meat and Meat Products (Other Than Poultry)
United Kingdom received 13 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Meat and Meat Products (Other Than Poultry) between 2023-Q3 and 2026-Q2. Volume peaked at 4 in 2025-Q2, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issue is Escherichia coli O26. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 1.2 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from United Kingdom over the last 3 years. The list below gives each of these 14 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 1 carries the laboratory result and 3 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import meat and meat products (other than poultry) 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).
- If it is rejected
- Not stated 45%; held, final fate not recorded 36%; destroyed 18%. 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), Spain (3), European Commission (1), of 11 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Riskiest months
- August, April, March, by rejections since 2020.
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 | 2 |
| 2023-Q4 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 2 |
| 2025-Q2 | 4 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Rejections | 1 rejection per | Per $1B EU imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheep & Goat | 7 | 37,218 t | 3.1 | — |
| Pork | 3 | — | — | — |
| Other | 1 | — | — | — |
| Beef | 0 | — | — | — |
| Prepared Meat & Sausage | 0 | — | — | — |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 10 | 88,443 t |
"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
- 2026.3188 absence of labelling (no English labelling) on frozen pre-cooked kebab meat from United Kingdom Notified by European Commission.
- 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.
- 2024.6045 Fallo en la temperatura en preparado de carne de ave y porcino de Reino Unido. Temperature failure in meat preparations with pork and chicken from United Kingdom. Notified by Spain.
- 2024.6044 Fallo en la temperatura en producto cárnico porcino de Reino Unido. / Temperature failure in pork meat products from United Kingdom. Notified by Spain.
- 2023.7801 Ruptura de la cadena de frío en jamón de cerdo de Reino Unido. Breach of the cold chain in pork ham from United Kingdom. Notified by Spain.
- 2023.5438 E.coli STEC stx2 eae O26 in beef Notified by Netherlands. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result E.coli O26 stx2 + eae present. Escherichia coli O26
- 2023.5397 Rotura de la cadena de frío en salchichas congeladas de Reino Unido. Rupture of the cold chain in frozen sausages from United Kingdom. Notified by Spain.
- 2021.3995 poor temperature control (+17 °C) of chilled pork meat from the UK / carne de pocino- incumplimiento relativo a temperatura de transporte-Reino Unido Notified by Spain.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 57 notifications since 2020 concerned meat and meat products (other than poultry) from United Kingdom found after entering the EU — 10 alerts, 47 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 39%, official control on the market 33%, company's own check 19%, monitoring or surveillance sample 5%, other 4%. 7 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 13 | 6 | 7 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2024 | 18 | 3 | 15 |
| 2025 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026 to date | 7 | 1 | 6 |
- 2026.5697 info: follow-upEdible skins of swine shipment from the United Kingdom not submitted to inspection at the border Notified by France. Monitoring or surveillance sample, reached the market.
- 2026.5360 info: attentionNiveles elevados de plomo en carne procedente del Reino Unido// High levels of lead in various meat products from the United Kingdom Notified by Spain. Other, reached the market.
- 2026.5269 info: follow-upMandatory border checks not carried out on chilled boneless pork backs from the United Kingdom Notified by France. At the EU border, reached the market.
- 2026.4577 info: attentionGlutamate not authorised in meat products from the UK Notified by Italy. Official control on the market, reached the market.
- 2026.4268 info: attentionSTEC in beef sirloin steak, from Scotland Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, re-dispatched. Result present (limit not present /25g). Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing suspicion
- 2026.4103 info: attentionShigatoxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in Bovine steak from the United Kingdom Notified by Netherlands. Company's own check, reached the market. Result present (limit not present null). Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
- 2026.0377 alertPresence of listeria monocytogenes in sausages from the United Kingdom Notified by France. At the EU border. Result Detected (limit Not detected null). Listeria monocytogenes
- 2025.8091 info: attentionSTEC (stx+;eae+) in bovine meat from Belgium Notified by Belgium. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result presence (limit absence /25g). Escherichia coli shigatoxin-producing
- 2025.5925 info: attentionresidue of veterinary drugs in beef meat Notified by France. At the EU border, reached the market. Result 124 (limit 100 µg/kg - ppb). sulfadiazine
- 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
Data and downloads
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