Notice High risk Food

Stopped at the border: chlorpyrifos in bananas from Ecuador

RASFF 2026.9297: border control stopped a consignment of bananas from Ecuador via Bosnia and Herzegovina over chlorpyrifos at 0.022 mg/kg. The consignment was destroyed in Croatia.

Published Source: EU RASFF Issued by: Hrvatska (RASFF)
Why it was recalled chlorpyrifos (unauthorised pesticide), 0.022 mg/kg
What to do The consignment was stopped at the border and destroyed, so it never reached the shops and consumers need to do nothing.

Products 1

Bananas Green Cavendish, Class I, 19.5 kg

The European Commission validated RASFF notification 2026.9297 on 20 October 2026 as a border rejection notification. Border control stopped a consignment of bananas originating in Ecuador and shipped via Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which the pesticide chlorpyrifos was found at 0.022 mg/kg. Chlorpyrifos is an unauthorised substance; the risk decision is potentially serious.

The consignment was labelled Green Cavendish, Class I, net weight 19.5 kg, and was sampled on 11 September 2026. The notification was made by Croatia and the product was distributed to Croatia; companies from Ecuador, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia are involved.

The measure taken in Croatia was destruction of the consignment. The classification is a border rejection, so the product did not reach the market.

More information is available from HAPIH (Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food).

Data source Europska komisija – RASFF (sustav brzog uzbunjivanja za hranu i hranu za životinje) (EU RASFF) Original notice

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