Brazil — Spices, Flavors, and Salts — Spices-Other
Brazil received 12 FDA import refusals in Spices-Other, part of Spices, Flavors, and Salts between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume is falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are Salmonella, labeling, and unsafe color additive. Measured against US import value, that runs at 101.4 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Brazil over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import spices-other from Brazil
Below the median. Brazil ranks 13th of 17 origins shipping spices-other to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 101.4 — above 25% of them.
least riskmost risk
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 13 refusals in the last 3 years, 13 were hazard findings and 0 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 2,953 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the 6th highest refusal rate of 8 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (7); DNEI — Northeast (6).
- Riskiest months
- June, January, October, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- Salmonella (12), unsafe color additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- labeling (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- B6V-0284901-6 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- J37-0013798-0 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- NAT-0000787-2 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- AEK-7971079-2 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- DP4-3971860-3 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- 799-9566191-6 LEMON, NATURAL EXTRACT OR FLAVOR (SPICE) Import division DSEI. labelingunsafe color additive
- AMG-0167763-6 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- 9JM-0013581-9 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- DP4-3851687-5 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- ARE-3864643-1 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- 032-0591790-3 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- W11-1016432-6 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- WGB-2203166-7 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- B8P-0264076-5 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- AEK-2322106-0 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- 788-1811458-5 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- E4W-0026522-4 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- GH5-0143665-9 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSWI. Salmonella
- 032-0556468-9 MIXED SPICE AND SEAONINGS, WITHOUT SALT, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. no net quantitynutrition labeling
- E4W-0026912-7 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
Data and downloads
Download all 22 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 2026-10-07. To get new ones for Brazil by email, watch Brazil.
Brazil country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →