Ghana — Nuts and Edible Seeds
Ghana received 24 FDA import refusals in Nuts and Edible Seeds between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 4 in 2025-Q1, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are Salmonella, nutrition labeling, and unapproved new drug. 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 nuts and edible seeds from Ghana
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 24 refusals in the last 3 years, 22 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (24).
- Riskiest months
- June, October, January, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- Salmonella (21), mycotoxin (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- nutrition labeling (4), unapproved new drug (1).
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 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other-Nuts | 23 | — | — | Salmonella |
| Groundnut | 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
- BNI-0150588-0 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0148659-4 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0140106-4 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- N56-0050495-9 PEANUT, SHELLED Import division DNEI. nutrition labelingunapproved new drug
- BNI-0141366-3 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0138954-1 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0137647-2 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0139010-1 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. mycotoxinnutrition labeling
- BNI-0135001-4 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0135253-1 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0134228-4 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0133102-2 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonellanutrition labeling
- BNI-0133423-2 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0132813-5 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0131023-2 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0130400-3 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0130330-2 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0130170-2 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0128729-9 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0125318-4 MELON SEEDS (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
Data and downloads
Download all 28 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 2026-10-02. To get new ones for Ghana by email, watch Ghana.
Ghana country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →