El Salvador — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans
El Salvador received 15 FDA import refusals in Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 4 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unapproved new drug, establishment not listed, and foreign plant not registered. 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
If you import vitamins, minerals, proteins, and unconventional dietary specialties for humans from El Salvador
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 15 refusals in the last 3 years, 0 were hazard findings and 15 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (12); DNEI — Northeast (3).
- Riskiest months
- February, August, March, by refusals since 2020.
- Paperwork to get right
- unapproved new drug (13), establishment not listed (4), false or misleading label (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supplements | 14 | — | — | unapproved new drug |
| Herbals-Botanicals | 1 | — | — | 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
- 1FX-3437312-7 VITAMIN B12 (CYANOCOBALAMIN) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 1FX-8856869-6 VITAMIN K (PHYTONADIONE) Import division DSEI. establishment not listedforeign plant not registeredunapproved new drugprescription legend missing+1 more
- AEK-0487250-2 VALERIAN (HERBAL & BOTANICALS II) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 8Q4-0008850-1 VITAMIN C (ASCORBIC ACID) Import division DNEI. establishment not listedforeign plant not registeredunapproved new drug
- AEK-9433073-3 L-CARNITINE (PROTEIN) Import division DSEI. establishment not listedunapproved new drug
- AEK-9108252-7 VITAMIN, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. establishment not listedunapproved new drug
- AEK-9070754-6 VITAMIN B1 (THIAMINE) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-7213927-0 FOLIC ACID (VITAMIN) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-8207888-0 VITAMIN E (TOCOPHEROL) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 8TQ-0154895-5 MULTIPLE VITAMINS (MVI-12 VITAMIN COMBO) (VITAMIN) Import division DNEI. false or misleading label
- SCS-6178924-8 VITAMIN, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-5637518-9 L-ARGININE (PROTEIN) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 8TQ-0152000-4 MULTIPLE VITAMINS (MVI-12 VITAMIN COMBO) (VITAMIN) Import division DNEI. false or misleading labelrequired information omitted
- AEK-4621907-5 VITAMIN B12 (CYANOCOBALAMIN) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-4622511-4 VITAMIN C (ASCORBIC ACID) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-3804999-3 CALCIUM (MINERAL) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-3078930-7 GLUCOSAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-2793558-2 GLUCOSAMINE SULFATE (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-2967612-7 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 8TQ-0147051-5 MULTIPLE VITAMINS (MVI-12 VITAMIN COMBO) (VITAMIN) Import division DNEI. unapproved new drug
Data and downloads
Download all 29 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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El Salvador country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →