Costa Rica — Candy Without Chocolate, Candy Specialties, and Chewing Gum
Costa Rica received 9 FDA import refusals in Candy Without Chocolate, Candy Specialties, and Chewing Gum between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unfit for food, unsafe color additive, and filth. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Costa Rica, 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 Costa Rica
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 9 refusals in the last 3 years, 9 were hazard findings and 0 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (5); DNEI — Northeast (2); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (1).
- Test for before shipping
- unfit for food (8), filth (1), unsafe color additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- not in English (1), nutrition labeling (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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candy | 9 | 456 t | 2,147 | unfit for food |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 9 | 456 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
- CFQ-8141565-1 JELLIED CANDY, SOFT (JELLY BEANS, GUM DROPS, ETC.), WITH FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. unfit for food
- E84-0129224-6 CARAMEL CANDY PIECES, HARD, WITHOUT NUTS OR FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DSEI. filth
- EH3-2670727-8 JELLY FRUIT POPPERS CANDY Import division DNBI. unfit for food
- EH3-2671074-4 JELLY FRUIT POPPERS CANDY Import division DNEI. unfit for food
- ASE-1514365-4 GEL CUPS, FRUIT FLAVORED W/FRUIT CANDY Import division DSEI. unsafe color additivenot in Englishunfit for foodnutrition labeling
- ASE-1514023-9 GEL CUPS, FRUIT FLAVORED W/FRUIT CANDY Import division DSEI. unfit for food
- EH3-2574566-7 JELLY FRUIT POPPERS CANDY Import division DNEI. unfit for food
- 9ST-0011007-6 GEL CUPS CANDY Import division DSEI. unfit for food
- 404-2339449-9 GEL CUPS CANDY Import division DSWI. unfit for food
- 9ST-0006895-1 GEL CUPS, FRUIT FLAVORED Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
Data and downloads
Download all 10 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 2026-10-07. To get new ones for Costa Rica by email, watch Costa Rica.
Costa Rica country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →