Germany — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans
Germany received 33 FDA import refusals in Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 6 in 2026-Q3, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unapproved new drug, establishment not listed, and not in English. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Germany, 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 Germany
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 33 refusals in the last 3 years, 0 were hazard findings and 33 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (26); DNEI — Northeast (4); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (2).
- Riskiest months
- April, May, July, by refusals since 2020.
- Paperwork to get right
- unapproved new drug (19), nutrition labeling (7), not in English (6).
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 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024-Q2 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025-Q2 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2025-Q3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025-Q4 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-Q1 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supplements | 26 | — | — | unapproved new drug |
| Herbals-Botanicals | 7 | — | — | 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
- AEK-2193637-1 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-9847166-5 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. establishment not listed
- AEK-9608089-8 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. establishment not listednot in Englishforeign plant not registeredunapproved new drug
- AEK-0467705-9 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-0791122-4 VITAMIN B1 (THIAMINE) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-0842062-1 ASHWAGANDHA (HERBAL & BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 1FX-8854744-2 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. drug GMP failure
- 1FX-0407777-1 OMEGA-3 (FATS AND LIPID SUBSTANCES) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 799-3526242-1 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-9184766-3 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- SCS-2244237-6 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- AEK-7872202-0 VITAMIN, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in English
- AVB-1117015-2 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- 799-2623291-1 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. label not conspicuousnot in Englishnutrition labeling
- AEK-7761944-1 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. establishment not listedforeign plant not registered
- 799-0111934-9 VITAMIN, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-7398751-1 54K[][]22/TURMERIC (HERBAL & BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. establishment not listedunapproved new drug
- AEK-7303415-7 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. unapproved new drug
- 799-7142624-3 PSYLLIUM (FIBER) Import division DSEI. not in English
- AEK-8409073-5 ACONITE (HERBAL & BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS) Import division DNEI. unapproved new drug
Data and downloads
Download all 51 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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Germany country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →