Brazil — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Vegetables-Other
Brazil received 12 FDA import refusals in Vegetables-Other, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, no food-canning registration, and no process filing. Measured against US import value, that runs at 1,316 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Brazil over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import vegetables-other from Brazil
Above the median. Brazil ranks 9th of 24 origins shipping vegetables-other to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 1,316 — above 65% of them.
least riskmost risk
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 12 refusals in the last 3 years, 10 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 399 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the 4th highest refusal rate of 17 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (7); DSEI — Southeast (3); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (1).
- Riskiest months
- January, July, August, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (10).
- Paperwork to get right
- no food-canning registration (2), no process filing (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- 176-1049181-7 GINGER ROOT (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1049110-6 GINGER ROOT (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1049444-9 GINGER ROOT (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1049576-8 GINGER ROOT (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1049616-2 GINGER ROOT (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1049082-7 GINGER ROOT (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 176-1049316-9 GINGER ROOT (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- NM2-2319391-0 GINGER ROOT (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- 176-1046782-5 GINGER ROOT (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- B4Y-0034552-2 GARBANZO BEAN Import division DSEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- 551-4058197-3 PUMPKINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. no food-canning registration
- 9P3-0304603-7 GINGER ROOT (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- CDJ-0004899-9 HEART OF PALM (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- CDJ-0004909-6 CASSAVA (ROOT AND TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. ingredients not listednot in Englishundeclared allergennutrition labeling+3 more
- WGB-2112082-6 SOYBEANS (SEE INDUSTRY 37 FOR 'BEAN CURD'), JUICE OR DRINK Import division DSEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- 390-9567695-1 BLACKEYE PEAS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 799-6376282-7 CORN, (VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. no food-canning registration
- WGB-2105124-5 SOYBEANS (SEE INDUSTRY 37 FOR 'BEAN CURD'), JUICE OR DRINK Import division DSEI. label not conspicuousno process filing
- 8RG-2014901-5 COLLARD (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. no net quantitynot in English
Data and downloads
Download all 19 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 2026-08-31. To get new ones for Brazil by email, watch Brazil.
Brazil country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →