Brazil — Fruit and Fruit Products
Brazil received 8 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume is falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, no process filing, and filth. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Brazil, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit and fruit products from Brazil
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 8 refusals in the last 3 years, 4 were hazard findings and 4 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (6); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (1); DWCI — West Coast (1).
- Riskiest months
- November, October, February, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (3), pesticide residue (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (3), juice HACCP failure (1), no net quantity (1).
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 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 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 | 5 | — | — | no process filing |
| Tropical | 1 | — | — | pesticide residue |
| Berries-Grapes | 1 | — | — | juice HACCP failure |
| Stone-Fruit | 1 | — | — | no food-canning registration |
| Citrus | 0 | — | — | — |
"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
- FV9-2614399-4 PAPAYA (PAPAW) (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- J37-0013855-8 GRAPE JUICE, BERRY JUICE OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNEI. juice HACCP failure
- AVV-9975071-7 SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL, MIXED, JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNEI. no process filing
- K51-0108300-1 CASHEW FRUIT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT, JUICES, MILK, CREME, DRINKS AND NECTARS Import division DNBI. no net quantitynot in Englishnutrition labelingno process filing
- EAY-0048579-2 PEACH (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. no food-canning registration
- DP4-3737399-7 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL FRUIT PULP) Import division DNEI. filth
- 655-2519486-0 TAMARIND, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNEI. filth
- 655-2513095-5 TAMARIND, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNEI. filthno process filing
- 8RG-2348166-2 GRAPE JUICE, BERRY JUICE OR CONCENTRATES Import division DSEI. nutrition labeling
- 9P3-0287349-8 PAPAYA (PAPAW) (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 9P3-0285641-0 PAPAYA (PAPAW) (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- E4Y-2007917-3 ORANGE, CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 9BE-0000900-3 ORANGE, CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 9BE-0000814-6 ORANGE, CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 9BE-0000843-5 ORANGE, CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 9BE-0000815-3 ORANGE, CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 9BE-0000852-6 ORANGE, CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- WGB-2205164-0 COCONUT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT, JUICES, MILK, CREME, DRINKS AND NECTARS Import division DSEI. no process filing
- EI5-1596105-7 ORANGE, CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 9BE-0000723-9 ORANGE, CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
Data and downloads
Download all 27 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 2026-10-13. To get new ones for Brazil by email, watch Brazil.
Brazil country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →