Italy — Multiple Food Dinners, Gravies, Sauces, and Specialties (Total Diet)
Italy received 8 FDA import refusals in Multiple Food Dinners, Gravies, Sauces, and Specialties (Total Diet) between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2024-Q4, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are no process filing, no net quantity, and inadequate process control. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Italy, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import multiple food dinners, gravies, sauces, and specialties (total diet) from Italy
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 8 refusals in the last 3 years, 1 were hazard findings and 7 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (3); DNEI — Northeast (2); DWCI — West Coast (2).
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe color additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (4), inadequate process control (3), no net quantity (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sauces-Prepared | 8 | — | — | no process filing |
"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
- SCS-1055895-3 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. no process filing
- 224-5113645-5 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. inadequate process control
- 224-5110420-6 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. inadequate process control
- 231-5883989-1 BASIL SAUCE (WITH OTHER INGREDIENTS) Import division DSEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- 879-4075729-4 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. inadequate process control
- N26-1124258-8 BASIL SAUCE (WITH OTHER INGREDIENTS) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additivelabel not conspicuousno food-canning registrationno net quantity
- SCS-6104642-5 BASIL SAUCE (WITH OTHER INGREDIENTS) Import division DNBI. no net quantitynutrition labelingno process filing
- SCS-6105036-9 BASIL SAUCE (WITH OTHER INGREDIENTS) Import division DNBI. no net quantitynutrition labelingno process filing
- DF4-0620404-3 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. no process filing
- F23-9258440-5 GARLIC SAUCE Import division DSEI. not in Englishnutrition labelingno net quantity
- DF4-0220220-7 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
Data and downloads
Download all 11 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 2026-09-09. To get new ones for Italy by email, watch Italy.
Italy country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →