United States — Fish and Fish Products — Salmon
United States received 6 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Salmon, part of Fish and Fish Products between 2022-Q3 and 2025-Q2. Volume peaked at 4 in 2023-Q4, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are Anisakis and nematodes. The list below gives each of these 8 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
If you import salmon from United States
- 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
- Held, final fate not recorded 100% (20 tonnes in all). 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
- Belgium (3), Germany (2), of 5 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Test for before shipping
- anisakis (3), nematodes (2).
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 |
|---|---|
| 2022-Q3 | 0 |
| 2022-Q4 | 0 |
| 2023-Q1 | 0 |
| 2023-Q2 | 0 |
| 2023-Q3 | 0 |
| 2023-Q4 | 4 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 |
Recent rejections
- 2025.3679 Nematodes in frozen salmon fillet from the United States Notified by Germany. Result 45,9 /kg. nematodes
- 2025.3200 Nematodes in frozen salmon fillet with skin from the United States Notified by Germany. Result 128. nematodes
- 2023.8386 Parasitic infestation (anisakis) in frozen salmon from the USA Notified by Belgium. Anisakis
- 2023.8385 Parasitic infestation (anisakis) in frozen salmon from the USA Notified by Belgium. Anisakis
- 2023.8384 Parasitic infestation (anisakis) in frozen salmon from the USA Notified by Belgium. Anisakis
- 2023.7357 Ruptura de la cadena de frío en salmón de Estados Unidos. Breach of the cold chain in salmon from United States. Notified by Spain.
- 2020.5554 Poor temperature control ( -8.6, -9.9) for frozen salmon Notified by United Kingdom.
- 2020.1163 poor temperature control of frozen chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) from the United States Notified by United Kingdom. Destroyed.
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 2 notifications since 2020 concerned salmon from United States found after entering the EU — 2 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 50%, consumer complaint or illness 50%. 1 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 |
- 2025.0901 info: follow-upNematode larvae in frozen wild salmon from the USA, via the Netherlands Notified by Germany. Official control on the market, reached the market. nematodes
- 2020.1003 info: follow-upParasites in salmon from Alaska Notified by Austria. Consumer complaint or illness, reached the market. nematodes
Data and downloads
Download all 10 entries (CSV) — every notification behind this page, border rejections and those found on the market, with how each was found and what was done.
The file holds entries up to 2025-05-16. To get new ones for United States by email, watch United States.
United States country report since 2020 — all notification types, not just border rejections →