Canada — Snack Food Items (Flour, Meal, or Vegetable Base)
Canada received 18 FDA import refusals in Snack Food Items (Flour, Meal, or Vegetable Base) between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 9 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unsafe color additive, nutrition labeling, 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 snack food items (flour, meal, or vegetable base) from Canada
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 18 refusals in the last 3 years, 17 were hazard findings and 1 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (11); DSEI — Southeast (5); DNEI — Northeast (1).
- Riskiest months
- September, June, August, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe color additive (15), undeclared allergen (1), filth (1), pesticide residue (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- nutrition labeling (2), color not declared (1), FSVP violation (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snacks | 18 | — | — | unsafe color additive |
"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
- 1FX-7638177-2 POTATO SNACKS (FLAVORED OR UNFLAVORED), VEGETABLE SNACKS (OTHER THAN PULSES) BAKED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- 300-3751398-6 POTATO CHIPS,FRIED Import division DWCI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- 1FX-5136192-2 POTATO SNACKS (FLAVORED OR UNFLAVORED), VEGETABLE SNACKS (OTHER THAN PULSES) BAKED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- 1FX-3390437-7 POTATO SNACKS (FLAVORED OR UNFLAVORED), VEGETABLE SNACKS (OTHER THAN PULSES) BAKED Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- AEK-2041526-0 POTATO SNACKS (FLAVORED OR UNFLAVORED), VEGETABLE SNACKS (OTHER THAN PULSES) BAKED Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- 300-3767741-9 POTATO CHIPS,FRIED Import division DNEI. unsafe color additive
- 1FX-4113252-4 POTATO SNACKS (FLAVORED OR UNFLAVORED), VEGETABLE SNACKS (OTHER THAN PULSES) BAKED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- 1FX-4121164-1 POTATO SNACKS (FLAVORED OR UNFLAVORED), VEGETABLE SNACKS (OTHER THAN PULSES) BAKED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- SCS-7656983-6 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- 300-7996851-9 POTATO CHIPS,FRIED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- AEK-0948326-3 POTATO SNACKS (FLAVORED OR UNFLAVORED), VEGETABLE SNACKS (OTHER THAN PULSES) BAKED Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- 9DH-0081137-7 POTATO SNACKS (FLAVORED OR UNFLAVORED), VEGETABLE SNACKS (OTHER THAN PULSES) BAKED Import division DNBI. nutrition labelingunsafe color additive
- 9DH-0080669-0 POTATO SNACKS (FLAVORED OR UNFLAVORED), VEGETABLE SNACKS (OTHER THAN PULSES) BAKED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- AEK-0419888-2 POTATO SNACKS (FLAVORED OR UNFLAVORED), VEGETABLE SNACKS (OTHER THAN PULSES) BAKED Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- SCS-1143836-9 SNACK FOODS NOT ELSEWHERE MENTIONED, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- SCS-5183317-1 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. FSVP violation
- SCS-7286791-8 POTATO CHIPS,BAKED Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveundeclared allergen
- EYD-0116758-8 CORN CHIPS, BAKED Import division DNBI. no net quantitynot in Englishunsafe color additivenutrition labeling
- 98F-0057135-4 POTATO SNACKS (FLAVORED OR UNFLAVORED), VEGETABLE SNACKS (OTHER THAN PULSES) BAKED Import division DNBI. no net quantitycolor additive labelingnutrition labeling
Data and downloads
Download all 19 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 →