Egypt — Fruit and Fruit Products
Egypt received 88 FDA import refusals in 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 and fruit products from Egypt
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 87 refusals in the last 3 years, 71 were hazard findings and 16 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (49); DWCI — West Coast (16); 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), poisonous or deleterious substance (3), unsafe color additive (3).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (29), color not declared (4), inadequate process control (3).
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 | 17 | 15 | 2 |
| 2024-Q4 | 12 | 9 | 3 |
| 2025-Q1 | 22 | 17 | 5 |
| 2025-Q2 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 2026-Q1 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit-Other | 78 | — | — | pesticide residue |
| Tropical | 6 | — | — | color not declared |
| Berries-Grapes | 3 | — | — | poisonous or deleterious substance |
"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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- E6G-0179914-2 STRAWBERRIES, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- E6G-0178771-7 STRAWBERRIES, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- E6G-0179881-3 STRAWBERRIES, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- 8GQ-0060011-3 GUAVA, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNEI. color not declaredunsafe color additive
- 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
Data and downloads
Download all 105 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 →