Thailand — Vegetables and Vegetable Products
Thailand received 38 FDA import refusals in Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 7 in 2024-Q1, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, Salmonella, and filth. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Thailand, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import vegetables and vegetable products from Thailand
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 47 refusals in the last 3 years, 43 were hazard findings and 4 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (37); DNEI — Northeast (6); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (3).
- Riskiest months
- April, November, December, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (20), Salmonella (18), filth (2), poisonous or deleterious substance (2), unsafe food additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (3), not in English (2), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegetables-Other | 45 | — | 12,126 | pesticide residue |
| Pepper | 2 | — | — | Salmonella |
"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
- DZ1-1189419-9 MUSTARD GREENS (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DWCI. no process filing
- 008-5020121-1 BEANS, CORN, AND PEA, N.E.C. (VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- DZ1-1175152-2 LEAF & STEM VEGETABLES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- EJA-5229984-1 MUNG BEAN Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- DZ1-1184668-6 PEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- HK1-2600201-1 LEAF & STEM VEGETABLES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- 8NP-0811179-5 LEAF & STEM VEGETABLES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unsafe food additive
- DZ1-1175695-0 YANANG LEAVES (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- HK1-2503887-5 MUNG BEAN, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- W96-3607372-3 GARLIC BULB (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. FSVP violation
- HK1-2502934-6 LEAF & STEM VEGETABLES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- KM6-3661869-6 MUNG BEAN Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- KM6-3657256-2 MUNG BEAN Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 8NP-0809538-6 YANANG LEAVES, JUICE OR DRINK Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- N4A-0514393-4 MUNG BEAN, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 906-0490457-6 MUNG BEAN, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- KM6-1631870-5 MUNG BEAN Import division DWCI. pesticide residuefilth
- EJ2-0172565-5 LEAF & STEM VEGETABLES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- KM6-3650765-9 MUNG BEAN Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 655-2606368-4 SEAWEED, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
Data and downloads
Download all 78 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 2026-10-13. To get new ones for Thailand by email, watch Thailand.
Thailand country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →