Egypt — Fruit and Fruit Products — Tropical
Egypt received 9 FDA import refusals in Tropical, part of Fruit and Fruit Products between 2023-Q2 and 2026-Q1. Volume is rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are nutrition labeling, no food-canning registration, and no process filing. 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 tropical from Egypt
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 6 refusals in the last 3 years, 1 were hazard findings and 5 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (3); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (2); DSEI — Southeast (1).
- Riskiest months
- June, February, July, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe color additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (3), no net quantity (2), ingredients not listed (2).
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-Q2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Recent refusals
- N4R-0000840-7 GUAVA, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DSEI. no net quantityno food-canning registrationno process filing
- AVB-1122055-1 GUAVA, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNBI. color not declared
- BQL-0108590-9 MANGO, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNBI. ingredients not listedfalse or misleading labelcolor not declarednot in English+3 more
- 8GQ-0060011-3 GUAVA, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNEI. color not declaredunsafe color additive
- 8RG-2469013-9 MANGO, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- 8GQ-0058510-8 MANGO, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNEI. no net quantitynutrition labelingingredients not listedno manufacturer name
- BQL-0094408-0 GUAVA, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNBI. ingredients not listedcolor additive labelingnutrition labeling
- BQL-0093426-3 MANGO, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNBI. lead
- 8GM-0061545-3 GUAVA, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNBI. nutrition labelingno food-canning registrationno process filing
- K09-0086782-9 MANGO, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- DP4-8527590-4 GUAVA, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNEI. inadequate process control
- DP4-8453367-5 GUAVA, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNBI. juice percentage not declaredno food-canning registrationnutrition labeling
- BMG-0521468-2 MANGO, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DWCI. nutrition labeling
Data and downloads
Download all 13 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 2026-02-24. To get new ones for Egypt by email, watch Egypt.
Egypt country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →