South Africa — Fruit and Fruit Products
South Africa received 9 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, pesticide residue, and unsafe color additive. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from South Africa, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
Key figures
If you import fruit and fruit products from South Africa
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 9 refusals in the last 3 years, 9 were hazard findings and 0 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (8); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (1).
- Riskiest months
- March, November, July, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (7), unsafe color additive (2).
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.
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Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berries-Grapes | 8 | 7,989 t | 46.0 | filth |
| Fruit-Other | 1 | — | — | unsafe color additive |
| Stone-Fruit | 0 | — | — | — |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 8 | 9,418 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
- BNI-0148134-8 STRAWBERRY, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER AND CANDIED Import division DNEI. unsafe color additive
- HK8-0362634-8 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNEI. filth
- 805-0136556-5 MIXED FRUIT, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additive
- 9RK-4264886-5 RAISINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. filth
- 98F-0104781-8 RAISINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. filth
- HK8-0352728-0 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNEI. filth
- HK8-0350703-5 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNEI. filth
- 97Y-0202568-0 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNEI. filth
- 691-0243704-8 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNEI. filth
- 8M6-0064676-8 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DWCI. filth
- 97Y-0189533-1 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNEI. filth
- 97Y-0189531-5 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNEI. filth
- 97Y-0185970-9 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNEI. filth
- B6S-3510339-2 GRAPES (BERRY) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- B6S-3510338-4 GRAPES (BERRY) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- B6S-3510410-1 GRAPES (BERRY) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- B6S-3510341-8 GRAPES (BERRY) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 442-3162124-2 PEACH, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- CIU-8502242-8 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNBI. below standard of quality
- CIU-8502244-4 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNBI. below standard of quality
Data and downloads
Download all 34 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 2026-09-18. To get new ones for South Africa by email, watch South Africa.
South Africa country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →