Greece — Fruit and Fruit Products
Greece received 6 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2025-Q4, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, inadequate process control, and no process filing. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Greece, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit and fruit products from Greece
- 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
- DSEI — Southeast (3); DWCI — West Coast (2); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (1).
- Riskiest months
- April, March, November, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe food additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- inadequate process control (3), no process filing (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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit-Other | 5 | — | — | inadequate process control |
| Stone-Fruit | 1 | — | — | unsafe food additive |
| Tropical | 0 | — | — | — |
| Berries-Grapes | 0 | — | — | — |
"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
- FP1-0036846-2 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSEI. inadequate process control
- 9PS-1166333-7 OLIVES, GREEN, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DWCI. no process filing
- 8TG-0040242-9 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSEI. inadequate process control
- 8TG-0040044-9 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSEI. inadequate process control
- DP4-3947967-7 STUFFED OLIVE (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. no process filing
- 231-2720462-3 PEACH (PIT FRUIT) Import division DWCI. unsafe food additive
- 97E-0406589-3 KIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 97E-0409653-4 KIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 97E-0406584-4 KIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 97E-0406585-1 KIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 97E-0401208-5 KIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 97E-0408275-7 KIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 97E-0404893-1 KIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 97E-0408270-8 KIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 97E-0404507-7 KIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 97E-0406862-4 KIWI FRUIT (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 660-2546956-1 GRAPE, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER AND CANDIED Import division DSEI. labeling
- 176-0031909-3 CHERRY, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DNEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- 8NP-0064751-5 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNEI. insanitary conditions
- 176-0028110-3 STRAWBERRY, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER AND CANDIED Import division DNEI. unsafe color additive
Data and downloads
Download all 24 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 2026-08-03. To get new ones for Greece by email, watch Greece.
Greece country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →