Ghana — Fishery/Seafood Products
Ghana received 15 FDA import refusals in Fishery/Seafood Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q2, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are insanitary plant, filth, and no net quantity. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Ghana, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fishery/seafood products from Ghana
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 15 refusals in the last 3 years, 13 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (13); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (1); DWCI — West Coast (1).
- Riskiest months
- July, April, March, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- insanitary plant (10), filth (4), Salmonella (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no net quantity (3), labeling (2), no manufacturer name (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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish-Other | 15 | — | — | insanitary plant |
"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
- 8B4-0013081-9 EEL Import division DNEI. insanitary plantno manufacturer nameno net quantityno common name+1 more
- 8B4-0012704-7 TILAPIA, HOT SMOKED, FISH Import division DNEI. labeling
- U72-0540691-2 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. insanitary plantfilthSalmonella
- N56-0051111-1 MACKEREL (ONLY SCOMBEROMORUS SPP EG. SPANISH OR KING) Import division DNEI. insanitary plantno net quantity
- 8B4-0012577-7 EEL Import division DNEI. insanitary plant
- 8B4-0011896-2 MACKEREL (ONLY SCOMBEROMORUS SPP EG. SPANISH OR KING) Import division DNEI. insanitary plant
- 8B4-0011828-5 EEL Import division DNEI. insanitary plant
- N56-0050956-0 TILAPIA, HOT SMOKED, FISH Import division DNEI. nutrition labeling
- F23-9351692-7 MACKEREL (ONLY SCOMBEROMORUS SPP EG. SPANISH OR KING) Import division DNEI. insanitary plant
- 8B4-0012107-3 MACKEREL (ONLY SCOMBEROMORUS SPP EG. SPANISH OR KING) Import division DNBI. insanitary plant
- 8B4-0011923-4 EEL Import division DNEI. insanitary plant
- 8B4-0011716-2 EEL Import division DNEI. insanitary plantlabeling
- 8B4-0009389-2 EEL Import division DWCI. filth
- 8B4-0009110-2 EEL Import division DNEI. filthno manufacturer nameno net quantityno common name
- 8B4-0008495-8 EEL Import division DNEI. filth
- BNI-0116621-2 SARDINES (BRISLING, SPRATS, PILCHARDS, ETC.) Import division DNEI. no process filing
- 253-1068075-3 HERRING, HOT SMOKED, FISH Import division DSEI. nutrition labelingfilthSalmonella
- BQL-0081833-4 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. ingredients not listedno manufacturer nameno net quantityfalse or misleading label
- JKL-0019473-0 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. labeling
Data and downloads
Download all 19 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 2026-10-14. To get new ones for Ghana by email, watch Ghana.
Ghana country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →