Canada — Nuts and Edible Seeds
Canada received 10 FDA import refusals in Nuts and Edible Seeds between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, Salmonella, and no net quantity. 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 nuts and edible seeds from Canada
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 10 refusals in the last 3 years, 9 were hazard findings and 1 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (10).
- Riskiest months
- September, August, March, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (7), poisonous or deleterious substance (2), Salmonella (2), undeclared allergen (1), unsafe color additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no net quantity (2), nutrition labeling (2), ingredients not listed (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 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Groundnut | 7 | 6,750 t | 41.8 | pesticide residue |
| Sesame | 2 | — | — | Salmonella |
| Almond | 1 | — | — | nutrition labeling |
| Other-Nuts | 0 | — | — | — |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 7 | 13,574 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
- MK8-6113319-9 ALMOND, BUTTER Import division DNBI. no net quantitynot in Englishnutrition labeling
- 551-4103464-2 PEANUT, SHELLED Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 9RK-4382031-5 PEANUT, SHELLED Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 551-4072996-0 PEANUT, SHELLED Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 551-4069294-5 PEANUT, SHELLED Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- CIU-5261606-1 PEANUT, BUTTER Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- CIU-7070700-9 PEANUT, BUTTER Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- SCS-3256049-6 PEANUT, IN SHELL Import division DNBI. no net quantityno common namenutrition labelingingredients not listed+3 more
- 551-3934516-6 SESAME SEED (EDIBLE SEED PASTE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residueSalmonellapoisonous or deleterious substance
- 300-1453770-9 SESAME SEED (EDIBLE SEED PASTE) Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- 300-2618852-5 SESAME SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNBI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- CIU-7058413-5 PEANUT, BUTTER Import division DNBI. pesticide residueno net quantity
- 300-1288664-5 SESAME SEED (EDIBLE SEED PASTE) Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- M50-0876023-8 SESAME SEED (EDIBLE SEED PASTE) Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- 551-3540183-1 PEANUT, SHELLED Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 98F-0056069-6 PEANUT, BUTTER Import division DNBI. no net quantitynutrition labeling
- 551-4694114-7 SESAME SEED (EDIBLE SEED PASTE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residueSalmonella
- EI5-2256826-7 QUINOA SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 551-4613919-7 ALMOND, SHELLED Import division DNBI. insanitary conditionscolor not declared
- 551-4610887-9 SESAME SEED (EDIBLE SEED PASTE) Import division DNBI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 20 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 2026-08-28. To get new ones for Canada by email, watch Canada.
Canada country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →