Turkey — Fruit and Fruit Products
Turkey received 52 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 8 in 2025-Q3, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, filth, and nutrition labeling. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Turkey, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit and fruit products from Turkey
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 59 refusals in the last 3 years, 48 were hazard findings and 11 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (31); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (10); DSEI — Southeast (8).
- Riskiest months
- August, July, June, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (21), filth (13), poisonous or deleterious substance (11), mycotoxin (3), insanitary handling (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- nutrition labeling (8), juice HACCP failure (4), no net quantity (3).
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 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2026-Q3 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berries-Grapes | 18 | 511 t | 1,955 | pesticide residue |
| Citrus | 6 | 1,950 t | 353.4 | juice HACCP failure |
| Tropical | 25 | 1,945 t | 116.9 | poisonous or deleterious substance |
| Fruit-Other | 7 | — | — | poisonous or deleterious substance |
| Stone-Fruit | 3 | — | — | nutrition labeling |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 52 | 2,310 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
- BWS-0007112-9 RAISINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. pesticide residuefilth
- AZR-0001961-3 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 1FX-4937773-3 RAISINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. filth
- F87-2600772-4 FIG, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- 1FX-3275471-6 RAISINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- SCS-8521605-5 RAISINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- F23-9354267-5 CHERRY, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DNEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- KM6-3679306-9 CHERRY, JUICE, PIT FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNEI. not in Englishnutrition labelingcolor not declared
- 196-2560832-8 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNBI. label not conspicuousnutrition labelingno process filing
- AZR-0001448-1 OLIVES, BLACK, (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNEI. pesticide residuenot in Englishlabeling
- 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
- 879-4083440-8 RAISINS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. pesticide residuefilth
- 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
- 8NR-0017257-9 LEMON, CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNEI. juice HACCP failure
- 8NR-0017203-3 LEMON, CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNEI. juice HACCP failure
- 8GM-0102941-5 LEMON, CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNEI. juice HACCP failure
Data and downloads
Download all 102 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
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Turkey country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →