Ghana — Spices, Flavors, and Salts
Ghana received 5 FDA import refusals in Spices, Flavors, and Salts between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume is newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are no net quantity, nutrition labeling, and no manufacturer name. 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 spices, flavors, and salts from Ghana
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 5 refusals in the last 3 years, 2 were hazard findings and 3 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (5).
- Test for before shipping
- Salmonella (1), unsafe color additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no net quantity (3), no manufacturer name (2), nutrition labeling (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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spices-Other | 5 | — | — | no net quantity |
"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
- N56-0051370-3 SALT (TABLE SALT) N.E.C. Import division DNEI. nutrition labelingunsafe color additive
- 8B4-0008060-0 MIXED SPICE AND SEASONINGS, GROUND, CRACKED, WITHOUT SALT, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. no net quantitylabelingcolor not declaredno process filing
- BNI-0127299-4 SPICES, FLAVORS AND SALT NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. ingredients not listedno net quantitynot in Englishnutrition labeling+1 more
- 9AJ-0838980-9 MIXED SPICES AND SEASONING WITH SALT, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- F23-9261390-7 SALT, ROCK (TABLE SALT) Import division DNEI. no manufacturer nameno net quantityno common name
- BNI-0100752-3 SPICES, GROUND, CRACKED, ETC., N.E.C. Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BNI-0100801-8 WHOLE SPICE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. no manufacturer nameno net quantityno common name
- BNI-0099479-6 KOLA NUT, RAW MATERIAL FOR EXTRACTS AND FLAVORS Import division DNEI. nutrition labelinglabeling
- DP4-8407290-6 CAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
Data and downloads
Download all 9 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 →