Vietnam — Fruits and Vegetables — Other Vegetables
Vietnam received 6 RASFF border-rejection notifications in Other Vegetables, part of Fruits and Vegetables between 2024-Q2 and 2026-Q2. Volume peaked at 3 in 2026-Q2, with the trend newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are flonicamid, thiamethoxam, and cyromazine. Measured against EU import value, that runs at 642.9 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Vietnam over the last 3 years. The list below gives each of these 6 rejections by date and RASFF reference, with the country that notified it and the hazard found; 6 carry the laboratory result and 6 say what happened to the consignment.
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Key figures
If you import other vegetables from Vietnam
Above the median. Vietnam ranks 3rd of 8 origins shipping other vegetables to the EU on border rejections per $1 billion of EU imports, at 642.9 — above 71% of them.
least riskmost risk
- Chance a consignment is opened at the EU border
- 50% of consignments get identity and physical checks for pesticide residues (Reg. (EU) 2019/1793).
- If it is rejected
- Re-dispatched or destroyed 50%; destroyed 33%; re-dispatched 17%. 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 (5), Croatia (1), of 6 border rejections in the last 3 years.
- Test for before shipping
- flonicamid (4), thiamethoxam (3), cyromazine (1).
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 9 quarters
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| Quarter | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2024-Q2 | 2 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 |
Recent rejections
- 2026.4631 Pesticide residues in cucumbers from Vietnam Notified by Croatia. Re-dispatched. Result 0,032. cyromazinethiamethoxam
- 2026.2938 Flonicamid in frozen okra from Vietnam Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.21±0.11 (limit 0,03 mg/kg - ppm). flonicamid
- 2026.2935 Flonicamid in frozen okra from Vietnam Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.066±0.033 (limit 0,03 mg/kg - ppm). flonicamid
- 2026.1605 Flonicamid in frozen okra from Vietnam Notified by France. Re-dispatched or destroyed. Result 0.080±0.040 (limit 0,030 mg/kg - ppm). flonicamid
- 2024.3218 Thiamethoxam and Flonicamid in okra from Viet Nam Notified by France. Destroyed. Result 0.044±0.022 (limit 0,010 mg/kg - ppm). flonicamidthiamethoxam
- 2024.3217 Thiamethoxam in okra from Viet Nam Notified by France. Destroyed. Result 0.042±0.021 (limit 0,010 mg/kg - ppm). thiamethoxam
Found on the EU market: alerts and information notifications
Besides border rejections, 5 notifications since 2020 concerned other vegetables from Vietnam found after entering the EU — 1 alerts, 4 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 100%. 3 led to a recall from consumers.
Show the numbers
| Year | Total | Alerts | Information notifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 to date | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- 2023.5820 info: follow-upBacillus cereus in dried wood ear mushrooms from Vietnam Notified by Czechia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 380. Bacillus cereus
- 2021.7011 alertChlorpyrifos and fipronil in Asian Pearl Straw Mushrooms Notified by Denmark. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,014 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifosfipronil
- 2020.4200 info: follow-upDimethoat above MRL in frozen straw mushrooms from Vietnam Notified by Denmark. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 0,04 +/-0,02 (limit 0,01 mg/kg - ppm). chlorpyrifosdimethoate
- 2020.2411 info: attentionUndeclared sulphites in dried mushrooms from Vietnam Notified by Czechia. Official control on the market, reached the market. Result 56.1 (limit absence null). sulphite
- 2020.2390 info: attentionUndeclared sulphites in dried mushrooms from Vietnam Notified by Czechia. Official control on the market, reached the market, treated, sorted or diverted. Result 19.5 (limit absence null). sulphite
Data and downloads
Download all 11 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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