In April 2024, there were 448 notifications on the RASFF Portal including 413 foods, 21 animal feeds and 14 food contact material notifications.

In food, fruits and vegetables are still the products that account for the most cases (16.9%), followed by poultry meat and poultry meat products (16%), nuts, nut products and seeds (10.9%).
There were alerts reported this month:

• Microbiology: Most notable is the detection of Salmonella in poultry products originating from Brazil (42 warnings); discovered norovirus in oysters originating from the Netherlands.
• Pesticides: Detecting residues of the banned active ingredient Ethylene oxide from spice and sauce products originating from India; Chlopyrifos still remains in fruit and vegetable products, and the frequency of acetamiprid residue exceeding the MRL threshold is quite frequent.
• Food additive: detected too high content of preservative benzoic acid in soft drinks. Notably, there is a warning that the colorant is not allowed to be used isTitanium dioxide in this product originates from Syria. In another case, a warning was issued about detecting the banned colorant Ponceau 4R in strawberry syrup. In addition, there is a warning that the sulfur dioxide content is too high in dried fruits originating from Afghanistan.

In May, Vietnam had 10 cases from France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Greece and the Netherlands. There are many banned active ingredients such as hexaconazole, methamidophos, acephate, chlopyrifos, permethrin, chlorfenapyr, propiconazole detedcted in fresh chili and durian. Regarding the group of contaminants, the "permanent compound" perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) was detected in the cooked bivalve molluscs. The antibiotic group noted the violation of residues of the banned substance group nitrofuran in white shrimp and leuco-malachite green in frozen yellow catfish.