Afghanistan — Spices, Flavors and Salts
Afghanistan received 2 FDA import refusals in Spices, Flavors and Salts between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are filth, unsafe color additive, and color not declared. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Afghanistan, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of these, 2 were hazard refusals and 0 were paperwork refusals.
Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spices-Other | 2 | — | — | 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
- EAY-0052776-7 MIXED SPICE AND SEAONINGS, WITHOUT SALT, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- 8NR-0008651-4 SAFFRON, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additivecolor not declaredrequired information omittedFD&C Yellow No. 5 undeclared
Data and downloads
Download all 2 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 2026-07-29. To get new ones for Afghanistan by email, watch Afghanistan.
Afghanistan country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →