Honduras — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Vegetables-Other
Honduras received 13 FDA import refusals in Vegetables-Other, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 5 in 2025-Q4, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, no net quantity, and not in English. Measured against US import value, that runs at 111.1 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Honduras over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import vegetables-other from Honduras
Below the median. Honduras ranks 16th of 24 origins shipping vegetables-other to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 111.1 — above 35% of them.
least riskmost risk
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 13 refusals in the last 3 years, 12 were hazard findings and 1 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 10,121 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the 12th highest refusal rate of 17 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (12); DNEI — Northeast (1).
- Riskiest months
- July, September, December, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (12).
- Paperwork to get right
- no net quantity (2), no manufacturer name (1), not in English (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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- DM4-0864218-7 OKRA (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- DM4-0864580-0 OKRA (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- DM4-0853431-9 OKRA (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- JN8-0045836-4 OKRA (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- DM4-0844676-1 OKRA (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- DM4-0844665-4 OKRA (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- DM4-0843836-2 OKRA (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- DM4-0843834-7 OKRA (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- DM4-0844026-9 OKRA (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- E84-0113031-3 OTHER BEANS, PEAS, CORN, JUICE OR DRINK, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. no net quantitynot in Englishnutrition labeling
- DM4-0665347-5 OKRA (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. no manufacturer nameno net quantitypesticide residue
- DM4-0663243-8 OKRA (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- DM4-0660138-3 SQUASH, SUMMER (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- E84-0110748-5 OTHER BEANS, PEAS, CORN, JUICE OR DRINK, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- DM4-0629856-0 TOMATOES, JUICE Import division DSEI. not in English
- DM4-0595769-5 CHINESE EGGPLANT, THAI EGGPLANT (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- DM4-0596278-6 CHINESE EGGPLANT, THAI EGGPLANT (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- DM4-0593964-4 CHINESE EGGPLANT, THAI EGGPLANT (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- DM4-0592933-0 EGG PLANT (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- DM4-0593757-2 EGG PLANT (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
Data and downloads
Download all 20 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 2026-07-23. To get new ones for Honduras by email, watch Honduras.
Honduras country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →