Egypt — Fruit and Fruit Products — Fruit-Other
Egypt received 79 FDA import refusals in Fruit-Other, part of Fruit and Fruit Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 22 in 2025-Q1, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are no process filing, pesticide residue, and filth. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Egypt, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit-other from Egypt
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 78 refusals in the last 3 years, 67 were hazard findings and 11 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (46); DWCI — West Coast (13); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (11).
- Riskiest months
- January, September, October, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (59), filth (6), unsafe color additive (2).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (27), inadequate process control (3), color not declared (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 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 16 | 15 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 12 | 9 | 3 |
| 2025-Q1 | 22 | 17 | 5 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent refusals
- AC1-0009138-1 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- MDQ-0003739-0 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. inadequate process controlno process filing
- 1FX-6918633-5 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSEI. filth
- 8GQ-0061332-2 TAMARIND, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DWCI. filth
- DP4-3982078-9 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- DP4-3980006-2 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residueinadequate process control
- SCS-7943911-8 OLIVES (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSEI. pesticide residueno acidified-food filingno process filing
- SCS-8584236-2 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSEI. pesticide residueno process filing
- SCS-1931219-4 OLIVES (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSEI. inadequate process controlno process filing
- SCS-8579357-3 OLIVES (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSEI. pesticide residueno process filing
- AVB-1119830-2 SUTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- 8GQ-0059772-3 TAMARIND, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNEI. filth
- DP4-3834562-2 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- DP4-3818299-1 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DWCI. pesticide residueno process filing
- 8KF-0003125-4 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. no process filing
- DP4-3820835-8 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. no process filing
- DP4-3838590-9 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- 8GQ-0059527-1 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL FRUIT PULP) Import division DNEI. filth
- DP4-3832972-5 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residueno process filing
- DP4-3834518-4 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residueno process filing
Data and downloads
Download all 88 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 2026-09-18. To get new ones for Egypt by email, watch Egypt.
Egypt country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →