China — Multiple Food Dinners, Gravies, Sauces, and Specialties (Total Diet)
China received 12 FDA import refusals in Multiple Food Dinners, Gravies, Sauces, and Specialties (Total Diet) between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume is falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are no process filing, no food-canning registration, and no net quantity. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from China, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import multiple food dinners, gravies, sauces, and specialties (total diet) from China
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 14 refusals in the last 3 years, 3 were hazard findings and 11 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (6); DWCI — West Coast (4); DSEI — Southeast (3).
- Riskiest months
- June, July, November, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- refused establishment inspection (2), filth (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (7), no food-canning registration (4), listing refusal (2).
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sauces-Prepared | 14 | — | — | no process filing |
"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
- NFT-2097373-0 CHILI SAUCE Import division DNEI. inadequate process control
- AD1-0941842-7 BEAN CURD, FRESH - SOFT OR HARD (MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALTIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS) Import division DNBI. no net quantityno food-canning registrationno process filing
- 274-2600115-5 TACO (PACKAGE CONTAINS SEPARATE COMPONENTS, REQUIRE MIX/COOK) Import division DWCI. no process filing
- N6X-0014276-5 CHILI SAUCE Import division DNEI. no acidified-food filing
- BUU-1765982-8 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. refused establishment inspection
- BUU-1759318-3 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. refused establishment inspectionlisting refusal
- NFD-0220776-7 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. no net quantityno food-canning registrationno process filing
- EKU-1176678-7 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-3633575-4 BEAN CURD, FRESH - SOFT OR HARD (MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALTIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS) Import division DNEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- J34-0100956-1 BEAN CURD CUBES, FERMENTED (E.G., SALTED) IN OIL/SAUCE/ WINE, ETC. (MULT FOOD SPEC/SIDE DISH/DESSERT Import division DNEI. listing refusal
- KM6-3624343-8 BEAN CURD CUBES, FERMENTED (E.G., SALTED) IN OIL/SAUCE/ WINE, ETC. (MULT FOOD SPEC/SIDE DISH/DESSERT Import division DNEI. no process filing
- 349-2056920-8 BEAN CURD, N.E.C. (MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALTIES, SIDE DISHES & DESSERTS) Import division DWCI. nutrition labelingno food-canning registrationno process filing
- 85J-2226721-5 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. no process filing
- 224-3109421-2 PASTES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. inadequate process controlno acidified-food filing
- EKH-0823570-0 CHILI (PACKAGE CONTAINS SEPARATE COMPONENTS, REQUIRE MIX/COOK) Import division DNEI. refused establishment inspection
- KC2-2300448-4 BEAN CURD CUBES, FERMENTED (E.G., SALTED) IN OIL/SAUCE/ WINE, ETC., (PACKAGE CONTAINS SEP COMPONENTS Import division DWCI. no process filing
- EVR-0125280-3 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. no manufacturer nameno net quantityno process filing
- 9SB-0014949-7 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. no process filing
- W69-3726613-9 BEAN CURD CUBES, FERMENTED (E.G., SALTED) IN OIL/SAUCE/ WINE, ETC. (MULT FOOD SPEC/SIDE DISH/DESSERT Import division DWCI. no process filing
- 8BL-0012892-1 PASTES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listed
Data and downloads
Download all 24 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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China country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →