Fewer Moroccan Food Products Blocked at EU Borders, but Consumer Recalls Triple
Moroccan food products were the subject of fewer alerts in the European food safety alert system in 2025. Yet notifications mentioning a consumer recall tripled. A report published on November 6 reveals this unexpected shift in European inspections.
European authorities recorded 30 notifications concerning foodstuffs of Moroccan origin in 2025, down from 34 the previous year. The decline masks a shift in the measures taken: nine cases mention a consumer recall, compared with just three in 2024. This finding comes from an analysis published by RASFF Trends, based on data from the European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF).
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These nine cases account for 30% of the notifications recorded in 2025, compared with 8.8% a year earlier. A consumer recall applies to products that have already been sold and whose buyers are asked to dispose of them or return them. It differs from a withdrawal from store shelves, which takes place at the distributor level. Notifications mentioning this second measure also increased, from five to thirteen in one year.
More products already on the market
The shift is also apparent in the status of the goods inspected. In 2024, eleven of the 34 notifications concerned products that had reached the European market. In 2025, that share rose to 22 of the 30 cases, or 73.3%. At the same time, refusals of goods at European borders were halved, falling from eighteen to nine.
The product categories involved also changed. Fruit and vegetables accounted for sixteen notifications in 2025, compared with fourteen in 2024. Alerts reporting pesticide residues rose from five to twelve, while those concerning fish and fishery products fell from ten to seven.
The report covers food products exclusively and includes notifications recorded between 2020 and 2025. It counts 256 cases concerning Morocco over this period, with a peak of 70 in 2021. The figures reflect incidents detected by European inspections, whose intensity varies by product and country.
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The origin of the alerts also changed. In 2025, ten notifications concerning Moroccan products were triggered by inspections carried out by the companies themselves, compared with six in 2024. Three other cases were detected during official inspections on the European market.
