Peru — Fruit and Fruit Products
Peru received 14 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 8 in 2026-Q1, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, false or misleading label, and juice HACCP failure. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Peru, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit and fruit products from Peru
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 14 refusals in the last 3 years, 5 were hazard findings and 9 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (9); DNEI — Northeast (2); DWCI — West Coast (2).
- Riskiest months
- January, December, March, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (4), poisonous or deleterious substance (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- false or misleading label (8), juice HACCP failure (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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical | 9 | 69,396 t | 8.5 | false or misleading label |
| Fruit-Other | 2 | — | — | poisonous or deleterious substance |
| Citrus | 2 | — | — | pesticide residue |
| Berries-Grapes | 1 | — | — | pesticide residue |
| Stone-Fruit | 0 | — | — | — |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 12 | 194,097 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
- 96E-0143720-4 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- E6G-0045208-1 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- E6G-0045209-9 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- E6G-0048104-9 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- E6G-0047972-0 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- E6G-0048100-7 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- E6G-0047954-8 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- E6G-0048103-1 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- E6G-0047968-8 MANGO (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- 9N9-0005372-9 SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL FRUIT PULP, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. juice HACCP failure
- SQ4-0555887-6 GOLDEN BERRY (BERRY) Import division DNBI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- AZ2-1127703-3 STRAWBERRIES (BERRY) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- 97E-0505636-2 ORANGE (CITRUS) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 231-2400984-3 LIME (CITRUS) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- ALL-0268182-3 ORANGE (CITRUS) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 97E-0387178-8 GRAPES (BERRY) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 97E-0389780-9 GRAPES (BERRY) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 113-0759107-1 GRAPES (BERRY) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 820-7056262-2 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. filth
- EI5-4021392-0 CHERRY FRUIT (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
Data and downloads
Download all 25 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 2026-10-08. To get new ones for Peru by email, watch Peru.
Peru country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →