Canada — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans
Canada received 145 FDA import refusals in Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 28 in 2024-Q2, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are supplement labeling, nutrition labeling, and labeling. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Canada, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import vitamins, minerals, proteins, and unconventional dietary specialties for humans from Canada
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 185 refusals in the last 3 years, 100 were hazard findings and 85 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (158); DSEI — Southeast (18); DWCI — West Coast (7).
- Riskiest months
- June, December, March, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (88), undeclared allergen (2), insanitary handling (2), insanitary plant (2), new dietary ingredient (2).
- Paperwork to get right
- unapproved new drug (32), forbidden substance (26), nutrition labeling (25).
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 | 21 | 18 | 3 |
| 2024-Q2 | 28 | 23 | 5 |
| 2024-Q3 | 23 | 11 | 12 |
| 2024-Q4 | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| 2025-Q1 | 14 | 2 | 12 |
| 2025-Q2 | 16 | 3 | 13 |
| 2025-Q3 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 2025-Q4 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2026-Q1 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2026-Q2 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| 2026-Q3 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supplements | 160 | — | — | filth |
| Herbals-Botanicals | 25 | — | — | unapproved new drug |
"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
- 442-8673499-9 ANIMAL BY-PRODUCTS AND EXTRACTS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. supplement labelinglabelingunauthorized health claimnutrition labeling+2 more
- AEK-2108796-9 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- DS9-2513624-6 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. supplement labelingnutrition labeling
- 1FX-5695096-7 ASHWAGANDHA (HERBAL & BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 004-1739133-2 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- 231-7746411-9 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. no manufacturer name
- MFT-2762612-6 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. insanitary handling
- SCS-0137906-1 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- 9DH-0080514-8 PSYLLIUM (FIBER) Import division DNBI. establishment not listedno adequate directionsforeign plant not registeredlabeling
- SCS-8803433-0 ZINC (MINERAL) Import division DNBI. supplement labelingnutrition labeling
- 9DH-0078343-6 PROTEIN N.E.C. Import division DNBI. supplement labelingfalse or misleading labellabelingnutrition labeling
- EI5-5627416-2 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. supplement labelingno contact informationnutrition labelingunauthorized health claim
- AEK-9320284-2 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. establishment not listedforeign plant not registered
- 799-2386731-7 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- AEK-9378793-3 HYDROXOCOBALAMIN (VITAMIN) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- SCS-7227392-9 GINSENG (HERBAL & BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS) Import division DNBI. false or misleading label
- 8QV-0065443-4 VITAMIN C (ASCORBIC ACID) Import division DNBI. establishment not listedforeign plant not registered
- D77-3002685-4 GINSENG (HERBAL & BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS) Import division DNBI. label not conspicuous
- SCS-5376057-0 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- SCS-8527877-3 VITAMIN B2 (RIBOFLAVIN) Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
Data and downloads
Download all 309 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
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Canada country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →