Philippines — Fruit and Fruit Products
Philippines received 7 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, no food-canning registration, and no process filing. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Philippines, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit and fruit products from Philippines
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 7 refusals in the last 3 years, 3 were hazard findings and 4 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (4); DNEI — Northeast (3).
- Test for before shipping
- filth (2), poisonous or deleterious substance (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no food-canning registration (2), no process filing (2), color not declared (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit-Other | 6 | — | — | filth |
| Tropical | 1 | — | — | no process filing |
"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
- W69-5254232-3 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DWCI. filth
- 8MN-0018195-7 PAPAYA (PAPAW), JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE,BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DWCI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- AEK-0798579-8 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL FRUIT PULP) Import division DWCI. filth
- GHT-0000493-0 COCONUT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DNEI. inadequate process control
- 101-3074253-0 COCONUT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT, JUICES, MILK, CREME, DRINKS AND NECTARS Import division DNEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- K64-1096174-7 COCONUT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT PULP Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- BDD-0756413-7 PALM NUT/PALM FRUIT/SUGAR PALM (NOT ARECA OR BETEL NUT), JAMS, JELLIES, PRESERVES, MARMALADES, ETC Import division DNEI. color not declared
- 8MN-0013608-4 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DWCI. filth
- K64-1088933-6 COCONUT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT PULP Import division DWCI. Vibrio
Data and downloads
Download all 9 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 2026-09-24. To get new ones for Philippines by email, watch Philippines.
Philippines country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →