Australia — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans
Australia received 9 FDA import refusals in Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans 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 supplement GMP failure, supplement labeling, and nutrition labeling. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Australia, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import vitamins, minerals, proteins, and unconventional dietary specialties for humans from Australia
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 9 refusals in the last 3 years, 1 were hazard findings and 8 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (4); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (2); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (2).
- Riskiest months
- July, March, August, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- insanitary handling (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- supplement GMP failure (4), 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supplements | 8 | — | — | supplement GMP failure |
| Herbals-Botanicals | 1 | — | — | insanitary handling |
"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
- AEK-0869578-4 VITAMIN, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- AEK-0869582-6 VITAMIN, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- AEK-0869585-9 VITAMIN, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- WIB-1398479-7 ZINC (MINERAL) Import division DSWI. drug GMP failure
- NRN-0002417-5 PROBIOTICS (VIT/MIN/PROTEIN/UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPEC FOR HUMAN/ANIMAL, N.E.C.) Import division DNBI. supplement GMP failure
- 267-1322457-9 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. unapproved new drug
- F57-6012074-5 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DNBI. insanitary handling
- 799-4429480-1 FIBER, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. color not declaredno contact informationnutrition labeling
- 336-5388787-3 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. ingredients not listednot to standard of identitynutrition labeling
- 336-2542936-6 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DNBI. poisonous or deleterious substancelabeling
- F57-9615491-6 MULTIPLE VITAMINS (MVI-12 VITAMIN COMBO) (VITAMIN) Import division DNBI. supplement labelingunauthorized health claim
- 241-0312777-6 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. Siberian ginseng mislabeled
- AEK-2868619-2 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. false or misleading labelno contact informationnutrition labeling
- AEK-2387759-8 MILK THISTLE Import division DSEI. supplement labelingdietary supplement violationno net quantitylabeling
- AEK-2387873-7 MILK THISTLE Import division DSEI. supplement labelingno net quantitylabeling
- AEK-1989926-7 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement labelingdietary supplement violation
- AEK-2371390-0 MILK THISTLE (HERBAL & BOTANICAL OTHER THAN TEAS) Import division DSEI. supplement labelingdietary supplement violation
- SCS-4484496-0 VITAMIN, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- AEK-9884591-7 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- AEK-9623430-4 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
Data and downloads
Download all 27 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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Australia country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →