Canada — Candy Without Chocolate, Candy Specialties, and Chewing Gum
Canada received 26 FDA import refusals in Candy Without Chocolate, Candy Specialties, and Chewing Gum 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 unsafe color additive, nutrition labeling, and color not declared. 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 candy without chocolate, candy specialties, and chewing gum from Canada
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 26 refusals in the last 3 years, 19 were hazard findings and 7 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (17); DSEI — Southeast (5); DWCI — West Coast (4).
- Riskiest months
- September, March, December, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe color additive (18), FD&C Yellow No. 5 undeclared (3), Salmonella (1), unsafe food additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (9), nutrition labeling (8), no net quantity (6).
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candy | 26 | 16,072 t | 13.8 | unsafe color additive |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 26 | 16,072 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
- AEK-9672275-4 CANDY WITHOUT CHOCOLATE N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unsafe color additiveno net quantitynutrition labeling
- 1FX-3056038-6 HARD CANDY WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- 1FX-4580917-4 HARD CANDY WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- SCS-3273132-3 MINT CANDY, HARD, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additivecolor not declaredno net quantitynutrition labeling+1 more
- AEK-0560605-7 CANDY SPECIALTIES, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. color not declarednutrition labeling
- SCS-0858544-8 BUBBLE GUM (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedunsafe food additiveno net quantity+1 more
- SCS-8075309-5 JELLIED CANDY, SOFT (JELLY BEANS, GUM DROPS, ETC.), WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. color not declared
- SCS-7877480-6 CHEWING GUM (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. color not declared
- 9DH-0075408-0 CANDY SPECIALTIES, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- BGK-9248492-3 CANDY SPECIALTIES, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. ingredients not listed
- 9DH-0077576-2 JELLIED CANDY, SOFT (JELLY BEANS, GUM DROPS, ETC.), WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additivecolor not declaredno net quantitynutrition labeling+5 more
- SCS-1332091-2 CANDY SPECIALTIES, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- 799-4723074-7 HARD CANDY WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- 98F-0118329-0 CANDY BAR OR PIECES (NOT CARAMEL OR FONDANT), SOFT, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- SCS-0747651-4 CANDY SPECIALTIES, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- SCS-4457531-9 CHEWING GUM, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- 8NP-0129415-0 CANDY BAR OR PIECES (NOT CARAMEL OR FONDANT), SOFT, WITH NUTS OR NUT PRODUCTS (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- 101-0750136-3 CANDY SPECIALTIES, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. ingredients not listednutrition labeling
- 9DH-0068126-7 JELLIED CANDY, SOFT (JELLY BEANS, GUM DROPS, ETC.), WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additivepreservative not declaredno net quantitynutrition labeling
- SCS-6746392-1 HARD CANDY WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT, N.E.C. (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveno net quantitynutrition labeling
Data and downloads
Download all 35 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 →