68 notifications on cereals and bakery products from China since 1 January 2020. That is 3% of all EU notifications on products from China and 3% of all notifications on cereals and bakery products from any origin; China ranks 8 of 95 origins for this category. 15 in the 365 days to 8 November 2026, against 14 in the 365 days before, up 7%.
Most reported: unauthorised genetically modified material (29), missing or incorrect health certificates and documents (9) and aflatoxins (4). 63% were border rejections (28% for cereals and bakery products from all origins) and 22% had a serious risk decision. The products named most often were rice products (24), rice (11) and biscuits (4).
Counts start on 1 January 2020 and run to 8 November 2026, the day the list was last read. A notification that names two countries of origin counts for each. Findings come from our word list matched against the EU subject line, which is never shown; 96% of all notifications match it, the rest count as other finding. Each reference links to the official record on RASFF Window. How this works.
Latest notifications on cereals and bakery products from China
The newest 25 of 68, newest first, each built from fixed word lists. The reference opens the official record.
- Border rejection notified by Italy: unauthorised genetically modified material in rice products from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2026.9828, validated 4 November 2026.
- Border rejection notified by Belgium: unauthorised genetically modified material in rice products from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2026.8480, validated 24 September 2026.
- Border rejection notified by Italy: unauthorised genetically modified material in rice products from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2026.8461, validated 23 September 2026.
- Border rejection notified by Slovenia: missing or incorrect health certificates and documents for rice from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2026.8145, validated 15 September 2026.
- Border rejection notified by Italy: unauthorised genetically modified material in rice from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2026.7912, validated 8 September 2026.
- Alert notified by the Netherlands: undeclared milk and undeclared egg in a cereal or bakery product from China, risk decision serious, reference 2026.7579, validated 27 August 2026.
- Information for follow up notified by the Netherlands: missing or incorrect health certificates and documents for bread from China, risk decision not serious, reference 2026.7066, validated 10 August 2026.
- Border rejection notified by Italy: unauthorised genetically modified material in rice products from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2026.6984, validated 6 August 2026.
- Information for attention notified by Italy: unauthorised genetically modified material in rice products from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2026.6880, validated 3 August 2026.
- Information for follow up notified by the Netherlands: missing or incorrect health certificates and documents for a cereal or bakery product from China, risk decision not serious, reference 2026.6648, validated 27 July 2026.
- Border rejection notified by the Netherlands: unauthorised genetically modified material in rice products from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2026.6214, validated 13 July 2026.
- Alert notified by Belgium: aflatoxins in maize from China, risk decision serious, reference 2026.6070, validated 8 July 2026.
- Border rejection notified by the Netherlands: unauthorised genetically modified material in a cereal or bakery product from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2026.5938, validated 6 July 2026.
- Border rejection notified by the Netherlands: a finding outside our word list in rice products from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2026.2061, validated 12 March 2026.
- Border rejection notified by Italy: an unauthorised additive in bread from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2025.9509, validated 28 November 2025.
- Border rejection notified by Spain: unauthorised genetically modified material in rice products from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2025.7396, validated 26 September 2025.
- Alert notified by the Netherlands: lead in barley from China, risk decision serious, reference 2025.6820, validated 5 September 2025.
- Border rejection notified by Italy: illegal import or unapproved establishment for biscuits from China, risk decision not serious, reference 2025.6786, validated 4 September 2025.
- Border rejection notified by Greece: missing or incorrect health certificates and documents for rice products from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2025.6431, validated 22 August 2025.
- Alert notified by France: Alternaria toxins in a cereal or bakery product from China, risk decision potentially serious, reference 2025.6202, validated 14 August 2025.
- Information for attention notified by Spain: undeclared milk and undeclared egg in cakes and pastries from China, risk decision serious, reference 2025.5585, validated 23 July 2025.
- Border rejection notified by Poland: an unauthorised additive in wheat from China, risk decision not serious, reference 2025.5332, validated 14 July 2025.
- Alert notified by Spain: undeclared milk, undeclared soy and undeclared sulphites in biscuits from China, risk decision serious, reference 2025.4868, validated 27 June 2025.
- Border rejection notified by Latvia: unauthorised novel food in biscuits from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2025.4622, validated 20 June 2025.
- Border rejection notified by the Netherlands: unauthorised genetically modified material in rice products from China, risk decision potential risk, reference 2025.4584, validated 19 June 2025.
More: all notifications on products from China and cereals and bakery products from every origin.
The numbers
| Year | Notifications |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2021 | 8 |
| 2022 | 3 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 15 |
| 2025 | 13 |
| 2026 (to 8 Nov 2026) | 14 |
| Type | Notifications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Border rejection | 43 | 63% |
| Alert | 13 | 19% |
| Information for follow up | 7 | 10% |
| Information for attention | 5 | 7% |
| Risk decision | Notifications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Serious | 15 | 22% |
| Potentially serious | 3 | 4% |
| Potential risk | 26 | 38% |
| Not serious | 10 | 15% |
| Undecided | 13 | 19% |
| No risk | 1 | 1% |
| Finding | Notifications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Unauthorised genetically modified material | 29 | 43% |
| Missing or incorrect health certificates and documents | 9 | 13% |
| Aflatoxins | 4 | 6% |
| Undeclared milk | 4 | 6% |
| Illegal import or unapproved establishment | 3 | 4% |
| An unauthorised additive | 3 | 4% |
| Undeclared egg | 3 | 4% |
| Deoxynivalenol | 2 | 3% |
| Ethylene oxide | 2 | 3% |
| Other finding | 2 | 3% |
| Product | Notifications |
|---|---|
| Rice products | 24 |
| Rice | 11 |
| Biscuits | 4 |
| Noodles | 4 |
| Barley | 3 |
| Bread | 3 |
| Grains | 3 |
| Cakes and pastries | 2 |
| Notifying country | Notifications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 25 | 37% |
| Italy | 11 | 16% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 7% |
| Belgium | 4 | 6% |
| Portugal | 4 | 6% |
| Spain | 3 | 4% |
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