Canada — Fruit and Fruit Products
Canada received 40 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 9 in 2025-Q2, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, false or misleading label, and no process filing. 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 and fruit products from Canada
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 38 refusals in the last 3 years, 25 were hazard findings and 13 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (36); DSEI — Southeast (2).
- Riskiest months
- March, June, August, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (13), filth (9), undeclared allergen (2), unsafe color additive (2), unsafe food additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- false or misleading label (7), no process filing (7), nutrition labeling (3).
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 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025-Q2 | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| 2025-Q3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical | 16 | 369 t | 2,673 | false or misleading label |
| Berries-Grapes | 11 | 23,552 t | 14.9 | pesticide residue |
| Fruit-Other | 9 | — | — | filth |
| Citrus | 1 | — | — | unsafe color additive |
| Stone-Fruit | 1 | — | — | unsafe food additive |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 28 | 9,896 t |
"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
- CIU-4202359-2 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL FRUIT PULP) Import division DNBI. filthnot in Englishno process filing
- 551-4180059-6 DATES, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. filth
- SCS-3099281-0 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. filth
- 9X2-0533835-9 PINEAPPLE (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT PUREES) Import division DNBI. no process filing
- 1FX-9372186-7 TAMARIND, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNBI. filth
- 1FX-5444543-1 DATES, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- SCS-3423548-8 POMEGRANATE, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- 551-1392923-3 DATES, DRIED OR PASTE 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
- FY4-0119580-2 LIME, CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNBI. undeclared allergenlabelingnutrition labelingunsafe color additive+1 more
- F57-7457901-9 BLACKBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 101-3059918-7 COCONUT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT, JUICES, MILK, CREME, DRINKS AND NECTARS Import division DNBI. no process filing
- SCS-0819596-3 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- SCS-0830652-9 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- SCS-0093783-4 KIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. nutrition labeling
- SCS-1029925-8 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- SCS-0840146-0 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- SCS-0879007-8 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- SCS-9668301-0 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
Data and downloads
Download all 87 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 →