Mexico — Fruit and Fruit Products
Mexico received 479 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 63 in 2025-Q2, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, pesticide residue, and poisonous or deleterious substance. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Mexico, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit and fruit products from Mexico
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 489 refusals in the last 3 years, 466 were hazard findings and 23 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (448); DSEI — Southeast (25); DNEI — Northeast (8).
- Riskiest months
- May, April, March, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (210), pesticide residue (154), Salmonella (70), insanitary plant (30), insanitary conditions (29).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (23), nutrition labeling (19), not in English (12).
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 | 32 | 29 | 3 |
| 2024-Q2 | 52 | 49 | 3 |
| 2024-Q3 | 43 | 40 | 3 |
| 2024-Q4 | 36 | 33 | 3 |
| 2025-Q1 | 35 | 35 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 63 | 62 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 38 | 38 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 37 | 34 | 3 |
| 2026-Q1 | 48 | 48 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 50 | 46 | 4 |
| 2026-Q3 | 34 | 31 | 3 |
| 2026-Q4 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical | 199 | 30,522 t | 15.2 | filth |
| Berries-Grapes | 77 | 29,681 t | 6.1 | pesticide residue |
| Citrus | 20 | 207,241 t | 4.6 | pesticide residue |
| Fruit-Other | 190 | — | — | filth |
| Stone-Fruit | 3 | — | — | nutrition labeling |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 296 | 42,244 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
- 635-1125720-4 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- BHK-6118330-6 PRICKLE PEAR (CORE FRUIT) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- 83U-1466183-1 PRICKLE PEAR (CORE FRUIT) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- 83U-1466142-7 PRICKLE PEAR (CORE FRUIT) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- BJG-0223080-2 MIXED FRUIT, JUICES OR CONCENTRATES N.E.C., Import division DSWI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- SCS-4497308-7 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DSEI. filth
- 1FX-3005764-1 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- 635-1124991-2 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- 8MH-0083041-0 PRICKLE PEAR (CORE FRUIT) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- U72-0540846-2 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. filth
- MA2-5009134-9 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- 1FX-3528792-0 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- DR4-0710485-7 PRICKLE PEAR (CORE FRUIT) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- 635-1124891-4 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- BNI-0148877-2 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. filth
- 83U-1463110-7 PRICKLE PEAR (CORE FRUIT) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- 635-1124606-6 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- 635-1124566-2 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- SCS-5860367-9 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- 392-0264222-7 BERRIES AND CORE, MIXED Import division DSWI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 869 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 2026-10-20. To get new ones for Mexico by email, watch Mexico.
Mexico country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →