Canada — Fruit and Fruit Products — Fruit-Other
Canada received 9 FDA import refusals in Fruit-Other, part of Fruit and Fruit Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, no process filing, and pesticide residue. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Canada, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit-other from Canada
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 9 refusals in the last 3 years, 7 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (8); DSEI — Southeast (1).
- Riskiest months
- August, February, September, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (4), pesticide residue (2), unsafe color additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (2), false or misleading label (1), not in English (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 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- CIU-4202359-2 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL FRUIT PULP) Import division DNBI. filthnot in Englishno process filing
- SCS-3099281-0 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. filth
- 1FX-9372186-7 TAMARIND, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNBI. filth
- SCS-3177499-1 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL FRUIT PULP) Import division DNBI. filth
- 799-3816105-8 MIXED FRUIT PUREES, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. false or misleading label
- 101-3059918-7 COCONUT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT, JUICES, MILK, CREME, DRINKS AND NECTARS Import division DNBI. no process filing
- EVJ-1236347-2 BARBERRY, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 8WX-0010982-9 SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT PUREES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- SCS-2627307-2 BOYSENBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- DP4-8593250-4 TAMARIND, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveno net quantitynutrition labeling
- 86W-0011354-1 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DNBI. filth
- 300-7631643-0 OLIVES, GREEN, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNBI. no process filing
- E5G-0153056-4 TAMARIND, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNBI. filth
- 8KP-0015482-4 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 14 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 2026-09-18. To get new ones for Canada by email, watch Canada.
Canada country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →