Mexico — Fruit and Fruit Products — Tropical
Mexico received 194 FDA import refusals in Tropical, part of Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 40 in 2025-Q2, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, Salmonella, and pesticide residue. Measured against US import value, that runs at 15.2 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Mexico over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import tropical from Mexico
Lower risk. Mexico ranks 14th of 15 origins shipping tropical to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 15.2 — above 7% of them.
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- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 199 refusals in the last 3 years, 191 were hazard findings and 8 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 30,522 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the 8th highest refusal rate of 10 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (199).
- Riskiest months
- May, March, April, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (126), pesticide residue (27), Salmonella (17), unsafe color additive (13), unsafe food additive (11).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (13), not in English (8), nutrition labeling (8).
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 | 11 | 10 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 13 | 11 | 2 |
| 2024-Q3 | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 20 | 20 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 40 | 40 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 17 | 15 | 2 |
| 2026-Q1 | 27 | 27 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 17 | 16 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 13 | 12 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- 635-1125720-4 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- 635-1124991-2 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- MA2-5009134-9 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- 635-1124891-4 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- 635-1124606-6 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- 635-1124566-2 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- 02K-0000306-5 GUAVA, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- DV1-0277753-4 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSWI. Salmonella
- 635-1123875-8 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- 635-1124046-5 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- 635-1123931-9 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- 264-0819864-1 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- 02K-0000216-6 MANGO, JUICE, MILK, CREME, DRINK OR NECTAR, SUB/TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DSWI. labeling
- 259-4478409-6 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSWI. Salmonella
- 439-0438253-8 GUAVA (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- 439-0437901-3 GUAVA (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- 264-0819439-2 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- 635-1123016-9 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- 635-1122967-4 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- BJG-0202811-5 MANGOSTEEN (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSWI. no manufacturer nameno net quantityno common name
Data and downloads
Download all 379 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
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Mexico country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →