Brazil — Whole Grains, Milled Grain Products, and Starch
Brazil received 12 FDA import refusals in Whole Grains, Milled Grain Products, and Starch between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 3 in 2025-Q1, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are nutrition labeling, ingredients not listed, and pesticide residue. 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 whole grains, milled grain products, and starch from Brazil
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 12 refusals in the last 3 years, 6 were hazard findings and 6 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (8); DSEI — Southeast (3); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (1).
- Riskiest months
- January, May, July, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (6).
- 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 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 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rice | 6 | 37,125 t | 46.6 | pesticide residue |
| Grains-Starch-Other | 6 | — | — | nutrition labeling |
| Wheat | 0 | — | — | — |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 6 | 37,125 t |
"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
- 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
- 557-3201139-4 RICE, PLAIN (WHITE OR POLISHED) PROCESSED (PACKAGED) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 820-7079773-1 RICE, PROCESSED (PACKAGED) N.E.C. Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- E4W-0032135-7 RICE, PLAIN (WHITE OR POLISHED) PROCESSED (PACKAGED) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 655-2580885-7 RICE, PLAIN (WHITE OR POLISHED) PROCESSED (PACKAGED) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 655-2590271-8 RICE, PLAIN (WHITE OR POLISHED) PROCESSED (PACKAGED) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 655-2570126-8 RICE, PLAIN (WHITE OR POLISHED) PROCESSED (PACKAGED) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 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
- 9KA-0000677-1 WHEAT FLOUR, WHOLE Import division DNEI. not in Englishnutrition labeling
- DP4-8354385-7 TAPIOCA STARCH PRODUCT Import division DNEI. ingredients not listednutrition labeling
Data and downloads
Download all 20 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 →