Ghana — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans
Ghana received 6 FDA import refusals in Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unapproved new drug, nutrition labeling, and labeling. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Ghana, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
Key figures
If you import vitamins, minerals, proteins, and unconventional dietary specialties for humans from Ghana
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 6 refusals in the last 3 years, 2 were hazard findings and 4 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (5); DSEI — Southeast (1).
- Riskiest months
- March, January, September, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe food additive (1), unsafe color additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- unapproved new drug (5), nutrition labeling (2), dietary ingredient labeling (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.
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Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herbals-Botanicals | 4 | — | — | unapproved new drug |
| Supplements | 2 | — | — | unsafe food additive |
"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-0147206-5 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe food additivelabelingunapproved new drug
- 8B4-0011359-1 ALOE (HERBAL AND BOTANICAL TEAS II, (CONTINUED)) Import division DNEI. establishment not listedforeign plant not registeredunapproved new drugunsafe color additive+2 more
- BNI-0129822-1 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unapproved new drugjuice percentage not declarednutrition labeling
- BNI-0129318-0 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unapproved new drug
- 8B4-0006194-9 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unapproved new drug
- BNI-0123544-7 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement labelingdietary ingredient labelingunauthorized health claim
- BJU-0813820-0 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drugunauthorized health claimno manufacturer namenutrition labeling+2 more
- BNI-0100228-4 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unapproved new drug
- W04-0072756-0 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unapproved new drug
- BNI-0094461-9 ALOE (HERBAL AND BOTANICAL (NOT TEAS) II (CONTINUED)) Import division DNEI. unapproved new drug
- BNI-0085670-6 HERBALS & BOTANICAL TEAS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unapproved new drug
- BNI-0085800-9 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unapproved biologic
- SQ4-0283589-7 ALOE (HERBAL AND BOTANICAL (NOT TEAS) II (CONTINUED)) Import division DSEI. supplement labelingno contact informationnutrition labeling
Data and downloads
Download all 13 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 2026-09-29. To get new ones for Ghana by email, watch Ghana.
Ghana country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →