Bangladesh — Snack Food Items (Flour, Meal, or Vegetable Base)
Bangladesh received 8 FDA import refusals in Snack Food Items (Flour, Meal, or Vegetable Base) between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are Salmonella, nutrition labeling, and unsafe color additive. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Bangladesh, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import snack food items (flour, meal, or vegetable base) from Bangladesh
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 8 refusals in the last 3 years, 6 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (4); DWCI — West Coast (2); DNEI — Northeast (1).
- Test for before shipping
- Salmonella (5), aflatoxin (1), unsafe food additive (1), unsafe color additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- nutrition labeling (3), false or misleading label (2), ingredients not listed (2).
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snacks | 8 | — | — | Salmonella |
"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
- NF7-0001084-8 SNACK FOODS NOT ELSEWHERE MENTIONED, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. Salmonella
- NF7-0001078-0 BAKED SNACK FOOD, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. Salmonella
- NF7-0001079-8 SNACK FOODS NOT ELSEWHERE MENTIONED, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. aflatoxinnutrition labelingunsafe color additive
- NF7-2260068-3 SNACK FOODS NOT ELSEWHERE MENTIONED, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. ingredients not listedfalse or misleading labelnot in Englishnutrition labeling+2 more
- KM6-1627307-4 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- KM6-1625033-8 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- KM6-3623930-3 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. color not declared
- KM6-1605545-5 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. ingredients not listedlabel not conspicuousfalse or misleading labelnutrition labeling
- KM6-1591173-2 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- KM6-3593096-9 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
Data and downloads
Download all 10 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 2026-08-17. To get new ones for Bangladesh by email, watch Bangladesh.
Bangladesh country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →