Italy — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Vegetables-Other
Italy received 26 FDA import refusals in Vegetables-Other, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 15 in 2024-Q1, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, no process filing, and no food-canning registration. Measured against US import value, that runs at 70.7 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Italy over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import vegetables-other from Italy
Lower risk. Italy ranks 19th of 24 origins shipping vegetables-other to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 70.7 — above 22% of them.
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- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 28 refusals in the last 3 years, 19 were hazard findings and 9 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 4,275 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the 10th highest refusal rate of 17 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (14); DSEI — Southeast (8); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (3).
- Riskiest months
- January, August, February, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (19).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (5), no food-canning registration (3), false or misleading label (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 15 | 15 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Recent refusals
- AMG-0181053-4 MUSHROOMS AND OTHER FUNGI PRODUCTS, BROKEN OR KIBBLED, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. no process filing
- SCS-1740541-4 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. filth
- DF4-1639816-5 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. filth
- 1FX-9775219-9 TRUFFLE, FUNGI PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. no process filing
- 603-1122351-9 TRUFFLE, FUNGI PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. no process filing
- 9AG-0088854-7 TRUFFLE, FUNGI PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- DF4-1628317-7 GARBANZO BEAN Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- AEK-9387890-6 TRUFFLE, FUNGI PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. no acidified-food filing
- AEK-9335913-9 TRUFFLE, WHOLE (BUTTON) (FUNGI) Import division DNEI. inadequate process controlno food-canning registration
- ENE-0013416-2 EGG PLANT (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- 799-4971969-5 MUSHROOMS AND OTHER FUNGI PRODUCTS, PIECES AND STEMS, SLICED, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in English
- DP4-8615410-8 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. filth
- DP4-3703675-0 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. filth
- DP4-3704089-3 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. filth
- DP4-8618502-9 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. filth
- DP4-3694401-2 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DWCI. filth
- DP4-8613054-6 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. filth
- DP4-8627327-0 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. filth
- DP4-8628049-9 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. filth
- DP4-8627345-2 TOMATOES (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 49 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 2026-10-01. To get new ones for Italy by email, watch Italy.
Italy country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →