Indonesia — Fishery/Seafood Products
Indonesia received 472 FDA import refusals in Fishery/Seafood Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 308 in 2025-Q3, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, Salmonella, and histamine. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Indonesia, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fishery/seafood products from Indonesia
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 474 refusals in the last 3 years, 443 were hazard findings and 31 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (172); DSEI — Southeast (128); DNEI — Northeast (101).
- Riskiest months
- September, April, August, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- insanitary handling (284), insanitary plant (76), filth (47), Salmonella (36), nitrofuran (35).
- Paperwork to get right
- sulfites not declared (30), no net quantity (7), no manufacturer name (3).
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 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 24 | 24 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 15 | 15 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 32 | 12 | 20 |
| 2025-Q2 | 14 | 7 | 7 |
| 2025-Q3 | 308 | 305 | 3 |
| 2025-Q4 | 31 | 31 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 12 | 11 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shrimp-Prawn | 401 | — | — | insanitary handling |
| Tuna | 37 | — | — | Salmonella |
| Fish-Other | 36 | — | — | filth |
| Squid-Octopus | 0 | — | — | — |
"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
- 082-0477760-4 SNAPPER (RED, GRAY, MALABAR, ETC.) Import division DWCI. filth
- 082-0475252-4 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DSEI. veterinary drug residuenitrofuranpoisonous chlorinated compound
- AQZ-0642768-9 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DWCI. filthSalmonella
- CDX-0092119-9 MAHI MAHI Import division DSEI. filth
- CDX-0092363-3 MAHI MAHI Import division DSEI. filth
- D97-2286382-3 GROUPERS Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- D97-2320521-4 SNAPPER (RED, GRAY, MALABAR, ETC.) Import division DSEI. filth
- AQZ-0620764-4 GROUPERS Import division DSEI. nutrition labelinglabeling
- AQZ-0645050-9 MAHI MAHI Import division DWCI. filth
- CDX-0091791-6 MAHI MAHI Import division DSEI. histaminefilth
- D97-2299122-8 GROUPERS Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- AQZ-0642616-0 MAHI MAHI Import division DWCI. filth
- D97-2307351-3 MAHI MAHI Import division DSEI. histaminenutrition labeling
- 224-5109727-7 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DWCI. histamine
- EVJ-1258085-1 SNAPPER (RED, GRAY, MALABAR, ETC.) Import division DWCI. filth
- 316-7209652-1 GROUPERS Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- 082-0471330-2 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DWCI. filth
- D97-2254787-1 GROUPERS Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- 316-7208110-1 GROUPERS Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- 082-0469320-7 SHRIMP & PRAWNS, BREADED Import division DSWI. veterinary drug residuenitrofuran
Data and downloads
Download all 677 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 2026-10-16. To get new ones for Indonesia by email, watch Indonesia.
Indonesia country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →