Peru — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Vegetables-Other
Peru received 36 FDA import refusals in Vegetables-Other, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2022-Q4 and 2025-Q3. Volume peaked at 19 in 2022-Q4, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue and FSVP violation. Measured against US import value, that runs at 10.0 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Peru over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import vegetables-other from Peru
Lower risk. Peru ranks 23rd of 24 origins shipping vegetables-other to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 10.0 — above 4% of them.
least riskmost risk
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 13 refusals in the last 3 years, 12 were hazard findings and 1 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 53,029 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the 16th highest refusal rate of 17 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (11); DNEI — Northeast (2).
- Riskiest months
- November, June, July, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (12).
- Paperwork to get right
- FSVP violation (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-Q4 | 19 | 19 | 0 |
| 2023-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- J60-0046676-9 SHALLOT (ONION) (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- B7E-0033216-1 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- B7E-0033258-3 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- B7E-0033244-3 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- B7E-0032738-5 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- B7E-0032774-0 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- B7E-0032600-7 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- B7E-0032591-8 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- B7E-0032712-0 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- B7E-0032472-1 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 165-0615487-7 CORN, (VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. FSVP violation
- ALL-0278374-4 SNOW PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 9P3-0326582-7 SNOW PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- DM4-0642570-0 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- B7E-0022380-8 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- B7E-0022091-1 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- ALL-0257959-7 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- ALL-0258105-6 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- ALL-0257957-1 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- ALL-0257646-0 SUGAR SNAP PEAS Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
Data and downloads
Download all 40 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 2025-09-25. To get new ones for Peru by email, watch Peru.
Peru country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →