United States — Candy Without Chocolate, Candy Specialties, and Chewing Gum
United States received 8 FDA import refusals in Candy Without Chocolate, Candy Specialties, and Chewing Gum between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 4 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unsafe color additive, nutrition labeling, and color not declared. 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 candy without chocolate, candy specialties, and chewing gum from United States
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 8 refusals in the last 3 years, 6 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (7); DSEI — Southeast (1).
- Riskiest months
- September, August, December, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe color additive (6), FD&C Yellow No. 5 undeclared (2).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (4), nutrition labeling (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candy | 8 | — | — | unsafe color additive |
"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-3270558-2 BUBBLE GUM (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- SCS-3267469-7 CHEWING GUM (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- SCS-3265439-2 BUBBLE GUM (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- SCS-1303595-9 BUBBLE GUM (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- SCS-5526778-2 CHEWING GUM (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. color not declaredno net quantitynutrition labeling
- 98F-0113215-6 CANDY BAR OR PIECES (NOT CARAMEL OR FONDANT), SOFT, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedno net quantitynutrition labeling+1 more
- 551-1762506-8 BUBBLE GUM (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedno net quantitynutrition labeling+2 more
- SCS-1328353-0 CANDY WITHOUT CHOCOLATE N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement labelingfalse or misleading labelno manufacturer namenutrition labeling
- SCS-9653885-8 FLAVORED CANDY, SOFT (LIVE SAVERS, ETC.), WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedFD&C Yellow No. 5 undeclared
- 300-1193618-5 FLAVORED CANDY, HARD (LIVE SAVERS, ETC.), WITH FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additivecolor not declaredFD&C Yellow No. 5 undeclared
- 9DH-0041751-4 LICORICE CANDY, SOFT, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedno net quantitynutrition labeling
- 98F-0049753-5 CANDY BAR OR PIECES (NOT CARAMEL OR FONDANT), SOFT, WITHOUT NUTS AND FRUIT (WITHOUT CHOCOLATE) Import division DNBI. nutrition labeling
Data and downloads
Download all 12 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 →