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RASFF - Current postings for fruit & vegetables (for other food see separate article)

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Here we provide you with a monthly retrospective and selective summary of relevant reports from the European rapid alert system RASFF.

 

Via this link you can download a table from the European Rapid alert system (RASFF) with important notifications from product category fruit & vegetables.

 

June 2025

Product Active substance Reported value (MRL) Country
[mg/kg; ppm]
Bottle gourd Dimethoate 0,14 (!) (0,01) India
Cherries Omethoate 0,06 (0,01) Spain
Cucumbers Chlorate+) 0,59 (!!) (0,01) Netherlands
Grapefruits, pink Tebuconazole 0,57 (0,5) Chile
Grape leaves Dimetomorph 0,17 (!) (0,01)  Turkey
Peaches, chilled Phosmet +) 0,028 (0,01) Tunisia, notified by Italy
Pears Acetamiprid 0,085 (0,40) (?) Turkey
Diflubenzuron 0,025 (0,01)
Lambda-Cyhalothrin 0,046 (0,08) (?)
Peppers, fresh Formetanate 0,53 (!!) (0,01) Albania
Peppers, red-bell Flonicamid 1,01 (0,3) Netherlands
Pineapple Chlorpyrifos +) 0,018 & 0,022 (0,01) Panama
Pitaya, yellow Cypermethrin 0,16 (0,05) Ecuador
Strawberries (frozen) Formetanate 0,83 (0,4) Serbia
Strawberries Etoxazole 0,137 (!) (0,01) Greece
Formetanate 0,563 (!!) (0,01)

+) application is prohibited

 MRL exceeded: (!) ≥10 times, (!!) ≥50 times, (!!!) ≥ 100 times

 

Further notifications:

 

Product Reasons for complaint / rejection Country
Beans Cadmium 0,048 mg/kg (0,04 mg/kg) Peru
Lettuce Detection of Listeria monocytogenes France

All information without liability.

 
YOUR PLUS: The RASFF alerts serve as another indicator to reconsider risk decisions and adjust sampling plans.
 

Author: Dr. Frank Mörsberger, AGROLAB GROUP