Mexico — Vegetables and Vegetable Products

Mexico received 559 FDA import refusals in Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 75 in 2024-Q4, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, filth, and insanitary plant. 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 vegetables and vegetable products from Mexico

Hazard or paperwork: Of 591 refusals in the last 3 years, 549 were hazard findings and 42 paperwork alone.
Where refusals happen: DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (567); DNEI — Northeast (17); DWCI — West Coast (3).
Riskiest months: January, February, March, by refusals since 2020.
Test for before shipping: pesticide residue (398), filth (96), poisonous or deleterious substance (24), insanitary plant (18), Salmonella (18).
Paperwork to get right: FSVP violation (28), no manufacturer name (25), no net quantity (13).

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

hazard findings labelling & registration

Show the numbers

Quarter	Refusals	Hazard	Paperwork
2024-Q1	51	50	1
2024-Q2	48	45	3
2024-Q3	58	50	8
2024-Q4	75	72	3
2025-Q1	64	60	4
2025-Q2	43	41	2
2025-Q3	21	18	3
2025-Q4	41	40	1
2026-Q1	63	57	6
2026-Q2	51	45	6
2026-Q3	31	28	3
2026-Q4	13	13	0

By commodity, last 156 weeks

Commodity	Refusals	1 refusal per	Per $1B US imports	Most-cited hazard
Pepper	178	19,310 t	30.5	filth
Vegetables-Other	352	35,650 t	19.7	pesticide residue
Leafy	61	43,520 t	16.9	pesticide residue
All products with import tonnes on record	591	31,541 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

NDA-1038475-4 2026-10-20 HUSK TOMATO (TOMATILLO) (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. Salmonella
NJA-0004406-7 2026-10-20 SQUASH, SUMMER (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
NDA-1038362-4 2026-10-19 HUSK TOMATO (TOMATILLO) (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. Salmonella
NDA-1038736-9 2026-10-19 PIMIENTO PEPPER, JUICE Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
02K-1000776-7 2026-10-14 SCALLIONS, GREEN ONIONS (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
259-4523884-5 2026-10-07 LETTUCE, LOOSE-LEAF (E.G., ROMAINE) (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
9GV-0095572-5 2026-10-06 LETTUCE, HEAD (E.G. ICEBERG) (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
BYX-0316381-7 2026-10-06 RADISH (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
9GV-0095578-2 2026-10-05 LETTUCE, HEAD (E.G. ICEBERG) (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
AZK-1156340-8 2026-10-02 PEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSWI. filth
B9A-0130785-7 2026-10-02 CELERY (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
AZK-1156353-1 2026-10-02 PEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSWI. filth
AZK-1156355-6 2026-10-02 PEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSWI. filth
392-0264148-4 2026-09-29 PEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSWI. filth
9L9-0255597-3 2026-09-28 SCALLIONS, GREEN ONIONS (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
BHK-6117752-2 2026-09-22 SCALLIONS, GREEN ONIONS (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
BHK-6117720-9 2026-09-22 SCALLIONS, GREEN ONIONS (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
BJG-0221790-8 2026-09-16 SERRANO PEPPER, HOT (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
1FX-1695861-4 2026-09-14 PEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
BYX-0314869-3 2026-09-02 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue

Data and downloads

Download all 1,146 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 →