Indonesia — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans — Herbals-Botanicals
Indonesia received 18 FDA import refusals in Herbals-Botanicals, part of Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 6 in 2023-Q4, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unsafe dietary ingredient, new dietary ingredient, and foreign plant not registered. 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 herbals-botanicals from Indonesia
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 18 refusals in the last 3 years, 16 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (10); DWCI — West Coast (6); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (1).
- Riskiest months
- January, August, September, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe dietary ingredient (11), new dietary ingredient (3), E. coli O157:H7 (1), insanitary plant (1), Salmonella (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- foreign plant not registered (2), supplement labeling (1), unauthorized health claim (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 2024-Q1 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 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 |
Recent refusals
- EUG-0051865-4 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICAL TEAS II, CONTINUED) Import division DNEI. unsafe dietary ingredient
- AEK-9296238-8 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. unsafe dietary ingredient
- AN1-0908294-9 HERBALS & BOTANICAL TEAS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unsafe dietary ingredientno manufacturer namenot to standard of identity
- 120-0359462-4 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICAL TEAS II, CONTINUED) Import division DNBI. new dietary ingredient
- E8L-2312980-7 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DWCI. unsafe dietary ingredient
- 89X-0126181-3 MORINGA OLEIFERA (HERBAL AND BOTANICAL TEAS II, (CONTINUED) Import division DSEI. new dietary ingredientlabeling
- NS1-0025267-6 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. unsafe dietary ingredient
- NS1-0025232-0 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. unsafe dietary ingredient
- E6G-0623045-7 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DWCI. unsafe food additiveestablishment not listedforeign plant not registeredunapproved new drug
- NS1-0025051-4 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. unsafe dietary ingredient
- 9NK-0022469-9 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DWCI. unsafe dietary ingredient
- 8AG-0004411-8 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICAL TEAS II, CONTINUED) Import division DWCI. unsafe dietary ingredient
- NS1-0023410-4 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. insanitary plantE. coli O157:H7Salmonella
- NS1-0023411-2 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. foreign plant not registered
- NS1-0023142-3 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. unsafe dietary ingredient
- NS1-0023327-0 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. unsafe dietary ingredient
- 9K5-1002211-1 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICAL TEAS II, CONTINUED) Import division DWCI. new dietary ingredient
- 799-7585138-7 NONI (HERBAL & BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS) Import division DSEI. supplement labelingunauthorized health claim
- 8AG-0004412-6 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICAL TEAS II, CONTINUED) Import division DWCI. unsafe dietary ingredient
- 8AG-0004415-9 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSWI. unsafe dietary ingredient
Data and downloads
Download all 316 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 2026-09-08. To get new ones for Indonesia by email, watch Indonesia.
Indonesia country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →