United States — Fruit and Fruit Products
United States received 9 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 4 in 2025-Q4, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, Salmonella, and insanitary conditions. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from United States, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fruit and fruit products from United States
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 9 refusals in the last 3 years, 7 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (5); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (3); DSEI — Southeast (1).
- Riskiest months
- October, March, May, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (4), Salmonella (3), insanitary conditions (2).
- Paperwork to get right
- color additive labeling (1), labeling (1), vitamin labeling (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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruit-Other | 4 | — | — | Salmonella |
| Berries-Grapes | 3 | — | — | filth |
| Citrus | 1 | — | — | labeling |
| Tropical | 1 | — | — | filth |
| Stone-Fruit | 0 | — | — | — |
"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
- SCS-8006438-7 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- MK8-6079781-2 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNBI. filth
- 231-6618178-1 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DNBI. filth
- AE3-6098440-3 CANTALOUPE (VINE FRUIT) Import division DSWI. Salmonella
- AE3-6098504-6 CANTALOUPE (VINE FRUIT) Import division DSWI. insanitary conditionsSalmonella
- AE3-6098417-1 CANTALOUPE (VINE FRUIT) Import division DSWI. insanitary conditionsSalmonella
- 9DH-0070737-7 ORANGE, CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNBI. color additive labelinglabeling
- BII-0577784-2 RASPBERRIES, RED (BERRY) Import division DNBI. vitamin labeling
- MK8-5924878-5 FIG, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. filth
- B3R-0209164-6 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- AE3-7034379-8 DATES (PIT FRUIT), (PIT FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- AF4-0995070-2 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DSWI. filth
- BPQ-7032574-6 WOLFBERRY (CHINESE OR SOUTHEAST ASIAN BERRY OF THE CHINESE MATRIMONY VINE, W/SLIGHT LICORICE FLAVOR) Import division DWCI. not in English
- SCS-6332175-8 ELDERBERRY JUICE, BERRY JUICE OR CONCENTRATES Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- BDN-0165005-5 RAISINS (DRIED GRAPES) (BERRY) Import division DWCI. filth
- 300-7783360-6 CHERRY FRUIT (PIT FRUIT) Import division DNBI. bacterial contamination
- AQZ-0489078-9 APPLE (CORE FRUIT) Import division DWCI. filth
- CEA-0101879-0 CITRUS FRUIT, N.E.C., CITRUS FRUIT JUICES OR CONCENTRATES Import division DSEI. no net quantitynutrition labeling
Data and downloads
Download all 18 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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United States country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →