Canada — Vegetables and Vegetable Products
Canada received 118 FDA import refusals in Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 21 in 2024-Q3, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, filth, and FSVP violation. 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 vegetables and vegetable products from Canada
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 114 refusals in the last 3 years, 88 were hazard findings and 26 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (112); DSEI — Southeast (2).
- Riskiest months
- September, July, May, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (68), poisonous or deleterious substance (9), filth (6), Salmonella (4), Listeria monocytogenes (3).
- Paperwork to get right
- FSVP violation (23), no net quantity (2), sulfites not declared (2).
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 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2024-Q2 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 21 | 20 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 9 | 7 | 2 |
| 2025-Q2 | 15 | 2 | 13 |
| 2025-Q3 | 16 | 11 | 5 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 17 | 15 | 2 |
| 2026-Q3 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leafy | 31 | 11,611 t | 57.4 | pesticide residue |
| Vegetables-Other | 79 | 96,960 t | 6.7 | pesticide residue |
| Pepper | 4 | — | — | FSVP violation |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 114 | 74,373 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
- FY1-4105712-2 CABBAGE (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 551-7647194-1 PEPPER, SWEET (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. FSVP violation
- F57-7684007-0 BOK CHOY (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- F57-7654803-8 CUCUMBERS (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. filth
- 186-7951593-5 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- F57-7649919-0 CUCUMBERS (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. FSVP violation
- F57-7649251-8 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- F57-7634913-0 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- F57-7638805-4 CUCUMBERS (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. filth
- F57-7626630-0 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- F57-7629956-6 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- F57-7629919-4 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 186-7879129-7 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- F57-7623333-4 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- CIU-4194237-0 CUCUMBERS (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- F57-7618262-2 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- F57-7616169-1 CUCUMBERS (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- F57-7614763-3 CUCUMBERS (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 551-2678608-3 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- CDF-0567733-4 RED BEET (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 200 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 2026-09-22. To get new ones for Canada by email, watch Canada.
Canada country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →