Brazil — Spices, Flavors, and Salts

Brazil received 12 FDA import refusals in 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. 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 spices, flavors, and salts from Brazil

Hazard or paperwork: Of 13 refusals in the last 3 years, 13 were hazard findings and 0 paperwork alone.
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

hazard findings labelling & registration

Show the numbers

Quarter	Refusals	Hazard
2024-Q1	0	0
2024-Q2	1	1
2024-Q3	1	1
2024-Q4	0	0
2025-Q1	2	2
2025-Q2	2	2
2025-Q3	1	1
2025-Q4	1	1
2026-Q1	2	2
2026-Q2	1	1
2026-Q3	0	0
2026-Q4	1	1

By commodity, last 156 weeks

Commodity	Refusals	1 refusal per	Per $1B US imports	Most-cited hazard
Spices-Other	13	2,953 t	101.4	Salmonella
All products with import tonnes on record	13	2,953 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

B6V-0284901-6 2026-10-07 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
J37-0013798-0 2026-05-05 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
NAT-0000787-2 2026-01-23 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
AEK-7971079-2 2026-01-18 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
DP4-3971860-3 2025-12-12 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
799-9566191-6 2025-09-17 LEMON, NATURAL EXTRACT OR FLAVOR (SPICE) Import division DSEI. labelingunsafe color additive
AMG-0167763-6 2025-06-11 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
9JM-0013581-9 2025-06-02 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
DP4-3851687-5 2025-02-21 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
ARE-3864643-1 2025-01-22 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
032-0591790-3 2024-08-02 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
W11-1016432-6 2024-06-26 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
WGB-2203166-7 2023-10-23 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
B8P-0264076-5 2023-07-20 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNBI. Salmonella
AEK-2322106-0 2022-11-10 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
788-1811458-5 2022-10-21 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
E4W-0026522-4 2022-08-01 PEPPER,BLACK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
GH5-0143665-9 2022-06-10 PEPPER, BLACK, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSWI. Salmonella
032-0556468-9 2022-06-01 MIXED SPICE AND SEAONINGS, WITHOUT SALT, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. no net quantitynutrition labeling
E4W-0026912-7 2022-04-26 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 →