Chile — Fruit and Fruit Products
Chile received 69 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 14 in 2025-Q4, with the trend rising year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, insanitary plant, and insanitary handling. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Chile, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit and fruit products from Chile
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 68 refusals in the last 3 years, 68 were hazard findings and 0 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (30); DSEI — Southeast (12); DWCI — West Coast (11).
- Riskiest months
- April, May, June, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (48), filth (9), insanitary handling (6), insanitary plant (6), insanitary conditions (2).
- Paperwork to get right
- no manufacturer name (1), no net quantity (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 14 | 14 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical | 5 | 14,987 t | 21.4 | pesticide residue |
| Berries-Grapes | 48 | 22,206 t | 17.1 | pesticide residue |
| Stone-Fruit | 10 | 22,595 t | 11.7 | pesticide residue |
| Fruit-Other | 4 | — | — | pesticide residue |
| Citrus | 1 | — | — | pesticide residue |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 64 | 35,795 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
- 231-7584362-9 BLUEBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DSEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handlingpesticide residue
- 231-7584417-1 BLUEBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DSEI. E. coli O157:H7
- EI5-4041505-3 BLUEBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DNEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- 231-7583935-3 BLUEBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DSEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- 231-7584077-3 BLUEBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DSEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- 231-7579212-3 BLUEBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DSEI. insanitary conditionsinsanitary handling
- E6G-0053164-5 BLACKBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- F12-0076852-3 BLUEBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DSEI. insanitary conditionsinsanitary plant
- 231-7595531-6 BERRIES AND VINE FRUIT, MIXED Import division DSEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- BLS-9052918-1 STRAWBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- E6G-0051448-4 RASPBERRIES, RED (BERRY) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- E6G-0051434-4 RASPBERRIES, RED (BERRY) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 8TG-0042649-3 CHERRY FRUIT (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSEI. filth
- DP4-1016016-3 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNEI. filth
- FV9-2505745-0 STRAWBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- F12-0074535-6 STRAWBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 8TG-0038566-5 STRAWBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- 8TG-0038656-4 RASPBERRIES, RED (BERRY) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- 8TG-0039768-6 STRAWBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- 390-5415648-2 RASPBERRIES, RED (BERRY) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
Data and downloads
Download all 139 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 2026-09-14. To get new ones for Chile by email, watch Chile.
Chile country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →