Bangladesh — Fruit and Fruit Products
Bangladesh received 25 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q2, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, pesticide residue, and no process filing. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Bangladesh, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit and fruit products from Bangladesh
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 26 refusals in the last 3 years, 24 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (22); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (2); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (1).
- Riskiest months
- May, January, September, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (15), pesticide residue (7), unsafe food additive (2), poisonous or deleterious substance (1), unsafe color additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- ingredients not listed (2), no process filing (2), nutrition labeling (2).
FDA does not publish how many entries it examines, so no page can state a true probability of refusal; these are the figures that are published.
Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit-Other | 22 | — | — | filth |
| Tropical | 4 | — | — | pesticide residue |
"1 refusal per X t": tonnes of the same product imported for every one, over the same 156 weeks. A dash means fewer than 5 in the window, or under 1,000 t a year imported, too few to rate; the total row pools every product that has import tonnes on record.
Recent refusals
- AZ3-0121842-6 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL FRUIT PULP) Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-3673450-1 SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT, DRIED OR PASTE, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. ingredients not listednutrition labeling
- KM6-3671386-9 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. filthno net quantityno process filing
- EE3-1471792-1 PALM NUT ARECA, ARECA NUT OR BETEL NUT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. unsafe food additive
- EE3-1472143-6 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-3676145-4 CHINESE RED DATE (JUJUBES, ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA) (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- EE3-1470167-7 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. filth
- 8P5-0087755-7 TAMARIND, TOPPING OR SYRUP Import division DWCI. filth
- KM6-3667757-7 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-3642128-1 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSWI. filth
- KM6-3648211-9 OLIVES (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- KM6-3649245-6 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-3641118-3 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-3636074-5 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-3637084-3 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-3639175-7 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-3638117-0 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residueunsafe color additive
- KM6-3628380-6 CHINESE RED DATE (JUJUBES, ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA) (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- KM6-3630038-6 CHINESE RED DATE (JUJUBES, ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA) (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- KM6-3626500-1 PIT FRUIT, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
Data and downloads
Download all 35 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
The file holds entries up to 2026-10-02. To get new ones for Bangladesh by email, watch Bangladesh.
Bangladesh country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →