Canada — Chocolate and Cocoa Products — Chocolate-Cocoa
Canada received 25 FDA import refusals in Chocolate-Cocoa, part of Chocolate and Cocoa Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unsafe color additive, no net quantity, and nutrition labeling. Measured against US import value, that runs at 3.0 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 chocolate-cocoa from Canada
Lower risk. Canada ranks 8th of 9 origins shipping chocolate-cocoa to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 3.0 — above 12% of them.
least riskmost risk
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 25 refusals in the last 3 years, 20 were hazard findings and 5 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 50,297 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the 4th highest refusal rate of 5 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 (20); DSEI — Southeast (5).
- Riskiest months
- June, September, January, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe color additive (17), unsafe food additive (2), Salmonella (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no net quantity (5), ingredients not listed (4), nutrition labeling (4).
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 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
Recent refusals
- SCS-5994566-5 CHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- 1FX-4973431-3 CHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- F57-6249991-5 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITH NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- EI5-5680566-8 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITH NUTS OR NUT PRODUCTS (NOT COCONUT) Import division DNBI. labeling
- AEK-0688377-0 CHOCOLATE AND COCOA PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. label not conspicuousno net quantitynutrition labelingingredients not listed
- AEK-0497352-4 CHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- 9DH-0081001-5 CHOCOLATE AND CHOCOLATE COVERED CANDY, WITH NUTS AND FRUIT, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedno net quantitynutrition labeling
- 9DH-0078741-1 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DNBI. no net quantitycolor additive labeling
- AEK-9250651-6 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- SCS-0037048-2 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- SCS-5657785-6 CHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- 9DH-0075323-1 CHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- 879-4079374-5 CHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- 9DH-0074166-5 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- F57-7367431-6 CHOCOLATE COVERED CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- 300-2700515-7 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITH NUTS OR NUT PRODUCTS (NOT COCONUT) Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- F57-7357603-2 CHOCOLATE COVERED CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- SCS-7114431-9 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- SCS-5498948-2 CHOCOLATE BARS Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedno manufacturer nameno net quantity+1 more
- SCS-4806759-3 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
Data and downloads
Download all 25 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 →