United Kingdom — Chocolate and Cocoa Products — Chocolate-Cocoa
United Kingdom received 7 FDA import refusals in Chocolate-Cocoa, part of Chocolate and Cocoa Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2025-Q4, with the trend newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are unsafe color additive, nutrition labeling, and no net quantity. Measured against US import value, that runs at 61.2 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from United Kingdom over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import chocolate-cocoa from United Kingdom
Above the median. United Kingdom ranks 4th of 9 origins shipping chocolate-cocoa to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 61.2 — above 62% of them.
least riskmost risk
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 7 refusals in the last 3 years, 5 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 1,546 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the 2nd highest refusal rate of 5 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (6); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (1).
- Riskiest months
- November, March, June, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- embedded object (2), undeclared allergen (1), unsafe food additive (1), unsafe color additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no net quantity (2), nutrition labeling (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 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- SCS-8525965-0 CHOCOLATE COVERED CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DNBI. no net quantityundeclared allergennutrition labeling
- SCS-9716604-0 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSEI. color not declared
- SCS-9391625-7 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- 799-2594768-6 CHOCOLATE AND CHOCOLATE COVERED CANDY, WITH NUTS AND FRUIT, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unsafe food additive
- SCS-3408272-2 CHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSEI. embedded object
- SCS-1335351-5 CHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITH NUTS OR NUT PRODUCTS (NOT COCONUT) Import division DSEI. no net quantitynutrition labeling
- SCS-0742916-4 CHOCOLATE SUCKERS AND NOVELTIES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSEI. embedded object
- 799-1657144-1 CHOCOLATE BARS Import division DSEI. color not declared
- 799-7281845-3 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- AV3-0052917-7 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- AV3-0052558-9 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- 9K9-1005705-5 CHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSEI. no net quantitynutrition labeling
- 799-5870745-5 CHOCOLATE CANDY BAR, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSEI. nutrition labeling
- 9XE-0002149-4 CHOCOLATE CANDY PIECES, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT Import division DSWI. unsafe color additive
Data and downloads
Download all 14 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 2026-08-04. To get new ones for United Kingdom by email, watch United Kingdom.
United Kingdom country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →