EU Food Import Hazards

What keeps food out of the EU: RASFF notifications grouped by hazard. Each page tracks one hazard across all origins and product categories — yearly trend, the origins cited most often, and the origin–product combinations the EU now checks at increased frequency because of it.

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Tracked hazards

Hazard	Notifications	Most-cited origin
Aflatoxins	2,902	Turkey
Salmonella	4,715	Poland
Pesticide residues	6,345	Turkey
Listeria monocytogenes	932	France
Ethylene oxide	961	India

All hazard categories in RASFF notifications

Every hazard category RASFF tags, ranked by the number of notifications citing it. The tracked hazards above are the agent-level groups readers ask about most; the categories below show the full landscape.

#	Hazard category	Notifications
1	Pathogenic Micro-Organisms	6,638
2	Pesticide Residues	6,345
3	Mycotoxins	3,695
4	Heavy Metals	1,164
5	Composition	957
6	Migration	700
7	Food Additives and Flavourings	606
8	Allergens	543
9	Natural Toxins (Other)	479
10	Environmental Pollutants	470
11	Biological Contaminants	440
12	Novel Food	351
13	Industrial Contaminants	313
14	Non-Pathogenic Micro-Organisms	310
15	Residues of Veterinary Medicinal Products	293
16	Foreign Bodies	136
17	Chemical Contamination (Other)	104
18	Genetically Modified	102
19	Not Determined (Other)	96
20	Parasitic Infestation	91
21	Organoleptic Aspects	90
22	Labelling Absent/Incomplete/Incorrect	81
23	Tses	45
24	Gmo / Novel Food	44
25	Radiation	44
26	Adulteration / Fraud	38
27	Feed Additives	29
28	Packaging Defective / Incorrect	6
29	Poor or Insufficient Controls	1