Ecuador — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans
Ecuador received 9 FDA import refusals in Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unapproved new drug, not in English, and labeling. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Ecuador, 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 Ecuador
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 9 refusals in the last 3 years, 0 were hazard findings and 9 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (7); DNEI — Northeast (2).
- Riskiest months
- July, April, August, by refusals since 2020.
- Paperwork to get right
- unapproved new drug (7), labeling (3), not in English (3).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-Q3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supplements | 5 | — | — | unapproved new drug |
| Herbals-Botanicals | 4 | — | — | nutrition labeling |
"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
- AEK-9633472-5 VITAMIN C (ASCORBIC ACID) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- CFQ-8141182-5 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unauthorized health claimlabelingnutrition labeling
- AEK-0643357-6 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in Englishunapproved new drug
- MB5-0217028-7 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-0359120-2 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. labelingnutrition labeling
- BFV-0851739-3 MINERAL N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 799-6060606-0 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- BFV-0819856-6 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DNEI. not in Englishlabelingnutrition labelingunapproved new drug+2 more
- SCS-4153272-6 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in Englishunapproved new drugno manufacturer name
- SCS-1005503-8 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 799-7778276-0 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-7590451-3 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- SCS-8547977-3 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in Englishno contact information
Data and downloads
Download all 13 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 2026-09-08. To get new ones for Ecuador by email, watch Ecuador.
Ecuador country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →