Mexico — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Leafy

Lower risk. Mexico ranks 4th of 4 origins shipping leafy to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 17.2 — the lowest of them.

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Mexico received 60 FDA import refusals in Leafy, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 9 in 2024-Q4, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide, mfr insan, and mfr inj. Measured against US import value, that runs at 17.2 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Mexico over the last 3 years.

Of these, 57 were hazard refusals and 3 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

Recent rejections

8MH-0116289-6 2026-09-01 DSWISPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
BYX-0314799-2 2026-08-12 DSWISPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
BYX-0314438-7 2026-08-11 DSWISPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
8MH-0081508-0 2026-07-22 DSWILETTUCE, HEAD (E.G. ICEBERG) (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticidelacks firm
B9A-0123745-0 2026-07-13 DSWILETTUCE, HEAD (E.G. ICEBERG) (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
B9A-0122807-9 2026-06-25 DSWILETTUCE, HEAD (E.G. ICEBERG) (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
B9A-0122520-8 2026-06-15 DSWILETTUCE, LOOSE-LEAF (E.G., ROMAINE) (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
8MH-0079344-4 2026-05-26 DSWISPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticideinconspiculacks n/c
NDA-1035721-4 2026-04-21 DSWICABBAGE (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
B9A-0118856-2 2026-04-17 DSWILETTUCE, LOOSE-LEAF (E.G., ROMAINE) (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
DR4-0688098-6 2026-03-25 DSWIPARSLEY (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) mfr insanmfr inj
DV1-0273735-5 2026-03-05 DSWILETTUCE, HEAD (E.G. ICEBERG) (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
BJG-0210128-4 2026-02-23 DSWILETTUCE, HEAD (E.G. ICEBERG) (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
N9H-3104194-8 2026-02-18 DSWIKALE (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
DR4-0681961-2 2026-02-10 DSWIPARSLEY (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) mfr insanmfr inj
DV1-0272553-3 2026-02-02 DSWILETTUCE, HEAD (E.G. ICEBERG) (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
B9A-0106585-1 2025-10-23 DSWILETTUCE, LOOSE-LEAF (E.G., ROMAINE) (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
B9A-0105927-6 2025-10-06 DSWILETTUCE, LOOSE-LEAF (E.G., ROMAINE) (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
DR4-0662237-0 2025-09-29 DSWISPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) pesticide
BYX-0292841-8 2025-09-04 DSWISPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) fsvp vio