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Fruit and vegetables: Current postings on the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF)

RASFF

Here you find a retrospective monthly summary of relevant notifications about MRLs exceeded reported in the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF) supplemented about remarkable results found in our own laboratories in residue analysis.

 

Notification from RASFF 03/01 – 03/31/2021

Via this link you can download a table from the European Rapid alert system (RASFF) with important notifications from product category fruit & vegetables. We have selected only the messages that have been classified as “serious”. We have also added the listings for dried fruit.

RASFF fruit & vegetables (March 2021)

Product

Country

Active substance

Reported (MRL)
[mg/kg; ppm]

Aubergines

Dominican Republic

Methomyl

0,27 (0,01)

lambda-Cyhalothrin

0,22 (0,3)

Beans, long yard

Sri Lanka

Carbofuran+)

0,49 (0,01)

Coral lettuce

Belgium

Pyraclostrobin

3,4 (2)

Goji berries

China

Carbofuran+)

0,049 (0,002)

Grapefruits, pink

Turkey

Chlorpyrifos+)

0,029 (0,01)

Chlorpyrifos-methyl+)

0,043 (0,01)

Grapefruits, red

Turkey

Prochloraz

0,35 (0,03)

Chlorpyrifos-methyl+)

0,088 (0,01)

Guavas

Egypt

Dimethoate+)

0,031 (0,01)

Lemons

Turkey

Prochloraz

2,1 (0,03)

Peppers

Turkey

Tebufenpyrad

0,439 (0,01)

Turkey

Acetamiprid

0,698 (0,3)

Turkey

Formetanate

0,789 (0,01)

Turkey

Pyridaben

1,2 (0,3)

Etoxazole

0,5 (0,01)

Turkey

Flonicamid

0,613 (0,3)

Turkey

Flonicamid

0,828 (0,3)

Turkey

Pyridaben

0,888 (0,3)

Turkey

Fosthiazate

0,091 (0,02)

Turkey

tau-Fluvalinate

0,259 (0,01)

Carbendazim+)

0,528 (0,1)

Turkey

Tebufenpyrad

0,394 (0,01)

Turkey

Acetamiprid

0,652 (0,3)

Turkey

Pyridaben

0,858 (0,3)

Plums

Italy

Deltamethrin

0,24 (0,07)

Pomegranates

Turkey

Acetamiprid

0,069 (0,01)

Thiophanate-methyl

0,507 (0,1)

Carbendazim+)

0,579 (0,1)

Turkey

Imazalil

1,892 (0,01)

Turkey

Imazalil

0,96 (0,01)

(Baby) potatoes

Egypt

Fosthiazate

0,05 (0,02)

+) application is prohibited

No responsibility is taken for the correctness of this information  

 
 
 
 
 

Author: Dr. Katja Fuchs