United States — Nuts and Edible Seeds
United States received 11 FDA import refusals in Nuts and Edible Seeds between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 4 in 2025-Q2, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, aflatoxin, and nutrition labeling. 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 nuts and edible seeds from United States
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 11 refusals in the last 3 years, 9 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (6); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (4); DSEI — Southeast (1).
- Riskiest months
- January, April, June, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (5), aflatoxin (1), Listeria monocytogenes (1), mycotoxin (1), poisonous substance (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no net quantity (1), not in English (1), nutrition 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Almond | 7 | — | — | filth |
| Other-Nuts | 2 | — | — | poisonous substance |
| Pistachio | 1 | — | — | nutrition labeling |
| Walnut | 1 | — | — | filth |
"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-3009274-4 PISTACHIO, PASTE Import division DNBI. no net quantitynutrition labeling
- AEK-0211346-1 BETEL NUT, IN SHELL Import division DSEI. poisonous substance
- MK8-6033119-0 PECAN, SHELLED Import division DNBI. filth
- BNU-0029732-8 ALMOND, SHELLED Import division DWCI. filth
- F57-6037436-7 ALMOND, BUTTER Import division DNBI. not in English
- 224-3111760-9 ALMOND, SHELLED Import division DWCI. Listeria monocytogenes
- 224-3111999-3 ALMOND, SHELLED Import division DWCI. mycotoxin
- 300-1599276-2 WALNUTS, BLACK, ENGLISH OR PERSIAN, SHELLED Import division DNBI. filth
- 224-4882348-8 ALMOND, SHELLED Import division DWCI. filth
- 224-4878760-0 ALMOND, SHELLED Import division DWCI. filth
- BNU-0027476-4 ALMOND, SHELLED Import division DWCI. aflatoxin
- 9DH-0050696-9 ALMOND, PASTE Import division DWCI. filth
- 235-2345751-5 PISTACHIO, IN SHELL Import division DWCI. aflatoxin
- 235-2346067-5 PISTACHIO, IN SHELL Import division DWCI. aflatoxin
- BNU-0025972-4 PISTACHIO, SHELLED Import division DWCI. mycotoxin
- BNU-0026296-7 PISTACHIO, SHELLED Import division DWCI. filth
- 9DH-0043465-9 MIXED NUTS, SHELLED, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. label not conspicuousnutrition labeling
- CIU-5176723-8 PISTACHIO, IN SHELL Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- M42-1311624-5 ALMOND, SHELLED Import division DWCI. aflatoxin
- 235-2340821-1 ALMOND, SHELLED Import division DWCI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 26 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 →