Brazil — Whole Grains, Milled Grain Products, and Starch — Grains-Starch-Other
Brazil received 6 FDA import refusals in Grains-Starch-Other, part of Whole Grains, Milled Grain Products, and Starch between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 3 in 2026-Q3, with the trend newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are nutrition labeling, ingredients not listed, and label not conspicuous. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Brazil, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import grains-starch-other from Brazil
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 6 refusals in the last 3 years, 0 were hazard findings and 6 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (4); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (1); DSEI — Southeast (1).
- Riskiest months
- July, May, September, by refusals since 2020.
- Paperwork to get right
- nutrition labeling (5), label not conspicuous (4), ingredients not listed (4).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Recent refusals
- DP4-1067032-8 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DNEI. label not conspicuousnutrition labeling
- DP4-1044685-1 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DNEI. ingredients not listednot in Englishno common namenutrition labeling
- DP4-1044679-4 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DNEI. ingredients not listednot in Englishno common namenutrition labeling
- SCS-6581082-9 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DSEI. label not conspicuousnutrition labeling
- DP4-1025278-8 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DNEI. ingredients not listedlabel not conspicuousno common namenutrition labeling
- WGB-2312012-1 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DNBI. ingredients not listedlabel not conspicuous
- DP4-3676847-8 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- DP4-3655254-2 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DSEI. leadnutrition labeling
- 9KA-0001157-3 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substancenutrition labeling
- 9KA-0001111-0 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substancenutrition labeling
- DP4-8587220-5 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substancenutrition labeling
- 9KA-0000998-1 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DNEI. ingredients not listedno common namenutrition labeling
- DP4-8354385-7 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DNEI. ingredients not listednutrition labeling
Data and downloads
Download all 13 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 2026-10-15. To get new ones for Brazil by email, watch Brazil.
Brazil country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →