Honduras — Vegetables and Vegetable Products
Honduras received 15 FDA import refusals in 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 no manufacturer name. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Honduras, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import vegetables and vegetable products from Honduras
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 15 refusals in the last 3 years, 12 were hazard findings and 3 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (14); 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 (3), no manufacturer name (2), labeling (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 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegetables-Other | 13 | 10,121 t | 111.1 | pesticide residue |
| Pepper | 2 | — | — | no net quantity |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 15 | 10,841 t |
"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
- DM4-0863908-4 PEPPER, SWEET (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. labeling
- 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
- DM4-0860418-7 PEPPER, SWEET (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. no manufacturer nameno net quantity
- 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
Data and downloads
Download all 22 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 2026-08-07. To get new ones for Honduras by email, watch Honduras.
Honduras country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →