Turkey — Fruit and Fruit Products — Tropical
Turkey received 25 FDA import refusals in Tropical, part of Fruit and Fruit Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, filth, and poisonous or deleterious substance. Measured against US import value, that runs at 116.9 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Turkey over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import tropical from Turkey
Below the median. Turkey ranks 9th of 15 origins shipping tropical to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 116.9 — above 43% of them.
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- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 25 refusals in the last 3 years, 22 were hazard findings and 3 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 1,945 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the 5th highest refusal rate of 10 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (9); DSEI — Southeast (6); DWCI — West Coast (5).
- Riskiest months
- July, April, March, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- poisonous or deleterious substance (8), pesticide residue (6), filth (5), mycotoxin (3).
- Paperwork to get right
- nutrition labeling (5), no net quantity (2), no process filing (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.
Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- F87-2600772-4 FIG, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- 1FX-7915465-3 DATES, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- 1FX-1181031-3 DATES, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- 551-4117595-7 FIG, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 799-4932471-2 FIG, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- SCS-9490813-9 FIG, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. mycotoxin
- G08-0038433-4 POMEGRANATE, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. no net quantitynutrition labelingno process filing
- K09-0097110-0 FIG, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- AQ1-7029879-1 POMEGRANATE (OTHER FRUIT PUREES) Import division DSEI. not in Englishnutrition labelingno food-canning registrationno process filing
- DP4-3904809-2 POMEGRANATE, JUICE, OTHER FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- DP4-3874347-9 POMEGRANATE (OTHER FRUIT) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- 551-4019678-0 FIG, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- DP4-3790147-4 FIG, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. filth
- DP4-3774838-8 FIG, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. filth
- DP4-3768416-1 POMEGRANATE, JUICE, OTHER FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- DP4-3768355-1 POMEGRANATE, JUICE, OTHER FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- DP4-3702364-2 POMEGRANATE, JUICE, OTHER FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- EBD-0826643-6 FIG, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. filth
- DP4-3700030-1 POMEGRANATE, JUICE, OTHER FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- 332-0280446-5 FIG, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. mycotoxinnutrition labeling
Data and downloads
Download all 36 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 2026-09-21. To get new ones for Turkey by email, watch Turkey.
Turkey country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →