Italy — Bakery Products, Doughs, Bakery Mixes, and Icings — Bakery
Italy received 7 FDA import refusals in Bakery, part of Bakery Products, Doughs, Bakery Mixes, and Icings between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are nutrition labeling, unsafe color additive, and color not declared. Measured against US import value, that runs at 4.0 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Italy over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import bakery from Italy
Lower risk. Italy ranks 11th of 13 origins shipping bakery to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 4.0 — above 17% of them.
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- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 7 refusals in the last 3 years, 2 were hazard findings and 5 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 32,032 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the 6th highest refusal rate of 9 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (2); DNEI — Northeast (2); DSEI — Southeast (2).
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe color additive (2).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (2), nutrition labeling (2), FSVP violation (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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- 231-8328561-5 PASTRY (ECLAIRS, CREAM PUFFS) CUSTARD OR CREAM FILLED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- DF4-1634744-4 SWEET GOODS,CUSTARD OR CREAM FILLED, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. color not declared
- 516-2167128-1 SWEET GOODS,CUSTARD OR CREAM FILLED, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. nutrition labeling
- DF4-1625639-7 PLAIN COOKIES,BISCUITS AND WAFERS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. label not conspicuouslabelingnutrition labeling
- 97N-0621689-0 PLAIN COOKIES,BISCUITS AND WAFERS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. ingredients not listed
- DF4-1619506-6 PLAIN COOKIES,BISCUITS AND WAFERS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- DF4-1613683-9 PLAIN COOKIES,BISCUITS AND WAFERS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. FSVP violation
- F23-9264588-3 ICINGS AND ICING MIXES, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declarednutrition labelingingredients not listed+2 more
- BOZ-0037129-0 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in Englishnutrition labeling
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 2026-08-18. To get new ones for Italy by email, watch Italy.
Italy country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →