Egypt — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Vegetables-Other
Egypt received 20 FDA import refusals in Vegetables-Other, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 4 in 2025-Q2, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, no process filing, and pesticide residue. Measured against US import value, that runs at 195.1 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Egypt over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import vegetables-other from Egypt
Below the median. Egypt ranks 15th of 24 origins shipping vegetables-other to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 195.1 — above 39% of them.
least riskmost risk
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 20 refusals in the last 3 years, 13 were hazard findings and 7 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 2,917 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the 8th highest refusal rate of 17 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (8); DNEI — Northeast (7); DSEI — Southeast (4).
- Riskiest months
- June, October, January, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (5), pesticide residue (4), poisonous or deleterious substance (3), Salmonella (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (4), nutrition labeling (3), 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-Q4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Recent refusals
- 417-0414070-0 TOMATO, DRIED Import division DNBI. filth
- 196-2556638-5 VEGETABLE & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. no process filing
- AVV-9997859-9 STRINGBEANS Import division DNEI. no process filing
- 772-0289219-4 OKRA (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 8TG-0040004-3 CARROTS AND PEAS (SWEET) (MIXED VEGETABLES) Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- 8TG-0040013-4 CARROTS AND PEAS (SWEET) (MIXED VEGETABLES) Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- 8TG-0039889-0 STRINGBEANS Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- 8TG-0040003-5 CARROTS AND PEAS (SWEET) (MIXED VEGETABLES) Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- 8RG-2571689-1 LEAF & STEM VEGETABLES, DRIED OR PASTE, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- KM6-3655328-1 LENTILS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. ingredients not listedlabelingnutrition labelinglabel not conspicuous+2 more
- 8GQ-0059382-1 CUCUMBERS (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. filth
- 8GQ-0059410-0 CUCUMBERS (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. filth
- 9XM-0082339-5 BROCCOLI (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 8V6-0046902-8 CUCUMBERS (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. filth
- KM6-1624531-2 STRINGBEANS Import division DWCI. FSVP violation
- 8GQ-0058265-9 MIXED VEGETABLES, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- 772-0283750-4 OKRA (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 8GQ-0058033-1 EGG PLANT (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. filthnutrition labeling
- 791-4296514-9 MIXED VEGETABLES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. ingredients not listednutrition labeling
- DP4-3691720-8 STRINGBEANS, BEAN AND PEA SPROUTS Import division DSEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
Data and downloads
Download all 29 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 2026-08-28. To get new ones for Egypt by email, watch Egypt.
Egypt country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →