Canada — Soft Drinks and Waters — Soft-Drinks
Canada received 22 FDA import refusals in Soft-Drinks, part of Soft Drinks and Waters between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 6 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are nutrition labeling, no net quantity, and unsafe color additive. Measured against US import value, that runs at 13.8 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Canada over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import soft-drinks from Canada
Lower risk. Canada ranks 11th of 11 origins shipping soft-drinks to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 13.8 — the lowest of them.
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- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 23 refusals in the last 3 years, 13 were hazard findings and 10 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 46,777 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the 5th highest refusal rate of 6 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (22); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (1).
- Riskiest months
- September, October, December, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe color additive (12), FD&C Yellow No. 5 undeclared (2), unsafe food additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- nutrition labeling (17), no net quantity (15), ingredients not listed (7).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- CEY-1044989-8 SOFT DRINK, IMITATION FRUIT FLAVORED, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedno net quantitynutrition labeling+1 more
- 98F-0130682-6 SOFT DRINK, COLA, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. no net quantitynutrition labeling
- 98F-0130006-8 SOFT DRINK, COLA, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. no net quantitynutrition labeling
- 98F-0130874-9 SOFT DRINK, COLA, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. no net quantitynutrition labeling
- 9DH-0082200-2 SOFT DRINK, COLA, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. no net quantitynutrition labeling
- 9DH-0081983-4 SOFT DRINK, COLA, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- 9DH-0081967-7 SOFT DRINK, COLA, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- 98F-0125519-7 SODA WATER WITH FRUIT FLAVOR, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedno net quantitynutrition labeling
- 9DH-0080953-8 SOFT DRINK, COLA, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedno net quantitynutrition labeling
- 98F-0124792-1 SODA WATER WITH FRUIT FLAVOR, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedno net quantitynutrition labeling
- 98F-0124500-8 SODA WATER WITH FRUIT FLAVOR, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedno net quantitynutrition labeling
- 98F-0118196-3 SODA WATER WITH FRUIT FLAVOR, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. no net quantitynutrition labeling
- 551-2427172-4 NONALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- SCS-4268617-5 ENERGY DRINK CAFFEINE, CARBONATED, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveno net quantitynutrition labeling
- 98F-0114430-0 SODA WATER WITH FRUIT FLAVOR, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. labelingnutrition labeling
- 98F-0111606-8 SODA WATER WITH FRUIT FLAVOR, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedno net quantitynutrition labeling
- SCS-6686152-1 SODA WATER, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveno net quantitynutrition labeling
- 98F-0097507-6 SODA WATER WITH FRUIT FLAVOR, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedno net quantitynutrition labeling+1 more
- F23-9313764-1 NONCARBONATED SOFT DRINK, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. not to standard of identityno manufacturer namenutrition labelingno process filing
- 98F-0093844-7 SODA WATER WITH FRUIT FLAVOR, CARBONATED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveno net quantity
Data and downloads
Download all 32 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
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Canada country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →