El Salvador — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans — Herbals-Botanicals

El Salvador received 1 FDA import refusal in Herbals-Botanicals, part of Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is newly active in the last year. The most-cited issue is unapproved new drug. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from El Salvador, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.

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Key figures

Hazard or paperwork: Of these, 0 were hazard refusals and 1 were paperwork refusals.

Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters

hazard findings labelling & registration

Show the numbers

Quarter	Refusals	Paperwork
2023-Q4	0	0
2024-Q1	0	0
2024-Q2	0	0
2024-Q3	0	0
2024-Q4	0	0
2025-Q1	0	0
2025-Q2	0	0
2025-Q3	0	0
2025-Q4	0	0
2026-Q1	0	0
2026-Q2	0	0
2026-Q3	1	1

Recent refusals

AEK-0487250-2 2026-07-21 VALERIAN (HERBAL & BOTANICALS II) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-3078930-7 2023-04-26 GLUCOSAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-2793558-2 2023-03-28 GLUCOSAMINE SULFATE (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-2967612-7 2023-03-19 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug

Data and downloads

Download all 4 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 2026-07-21. To get new ones for El Salvador by email, watch El Salvador.

El Salvador country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →