United States — Nuts, Nut Products and Seeds — Sunflower Seeds
United States received 2 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Sunflower Seeds, part of Nuts, Nut Products and Seeds between 2024-Q3. The most-cited issue is cadmium. The list below gives each of these 2 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.
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Key figures
- What happened to rejected consignments, last 3 years
- Destroyed: 50%; Held, final fate not recorded: 50%. About 46 tonnes in total. Source: RASFF Window notification records.
Quarterly rejections, last 1 quarter
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| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q3 | 2 |
Recent rejections
- 2024.5364 Cadmio en pipas de EEUU. / Cadmium in sunflowers seeds from USA. Notified by Spain. Destroyed. Result 0.9 ± 23.5% (limit 0.5 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
- 2024.5118 Cadmio en pipas de EEUU. / Cadmium in sunflowers seeds from USA. Notified by Spain. Result 1.2 ± 23.5 % (limit 0.5 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 1 notifications since 2020 concerned sunflower seeds from United States found after entering the EU — 1 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 100%.
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| Year | Total | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 |
- 2024.3605 info: attentionCadmio en semillas de girasol de Estados Unidos. Cadmium in sunflower seeds from the United States Notified by Spain. At the EU border. Result 0.71 +/- 0.09 (limit 0.5 mg/kg - ppm). cadmium
Data and downloads
Download all 3 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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United States country report since 2020 — all notification types, not just border rejections →