Jordan — Nuts and Edible Seeds
Jordan received 23 FDA import refusals in Nuts and Edible Seeds between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q1, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are Salmonella, unsafe color additive, and nutrition labeling. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Jordan, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import nuts and edible seeds from Jordan
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 22 refusals in the last 3 years, 21 were hazard findings and 1 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (14); DNEI — Northeast (4); DSEI — Southeast (4).
- Riskiest months
- June, March, July, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- Salmonella (15), unsafe color additive (6), insanitary handling (4), insanitary plant (4), poisonous or deleterious substance (2).
- Paperwork to get right
- nutrition labeling (4), no net quantity (2), no food-canning registration (2).
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sesame | 12 | — | — | Salmonella |
| Pistachio | 7 | — | — | unsafe color additive |
| Other-Nuts | 3 | — | — | unsafe color 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
- TZ8-6038740-4 SESAME SEED (EDIBLE SEED PASTE) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- ADM-0066401-8 MIXED NUTS, SHELLED, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additive
- 9K9-1027784-4 SESAME SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- 541-2829950-7 SESAME SEED PASTE, EDIBLE SEED BUTTERS Import division DNEI. pesticide residuefalse or misleading labelnutrition labelingSalmonella
- 202-3111544-3 SESAME SEED (EDIBLE SEED PASTE) Import division DNBI. insanitary plantSalmonella
- 417-0404700-4 PISTACHIO, SPREAD Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- BSL-0107685-1 PISTACHIO, PASTE Import division DNBI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listed
- 358-7030662-4 MIXED NUTS, SHELLED, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- BSL-0424819-2 PISTACHIO, PASTE Import division DNBI. no net quantitycolor additive labelingnutrition labelingunsafe color additive
- 417-0405461-2 PISTACHIO, SPREAD Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
- NXW-0007205-2 SESAME SEED PASTE (E.G., TAHINA), EDIBLE SEED PROD. Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- TZ8-6037661-3 SESAME SEED (EDIBLE SEED PASTE) Import division DSEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handlingSalmonella
- 9JW-0414448-4 SESAME SEED (EDIBLE SEED PASTE) Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substanceinsanitary plantinsanitary handlingSalmonella
- 196-2555785-5 SESAME SEED (EDIBLE SEED PASTE) Import division DNBI. no food-canning registrationno process filingpoisonous or deleterious substanceinsanitary conditions+2 more
- 9K9-1024658-3 PISTACHIO, IN SHELL Import division DNEI. no food-canning registrationno process filingSalmonella
- E94-2003587-1 PISTACHIO, SPREAD Import division DNBI. FSVP violation
- 8XG-0163771-9 SESAME SEED (EDIBLE SEED PASTE) Import division DNBI. insanitary plantinsanitary handlingSalmonellano net quantity+2 more
- 478-0269027-2 SESAME SEED PASTE (E.G., TAHINA), EDIBLE SEED PROD. Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- 805-0135434-6 MIXED NUTS, SHELLED, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. unsafe color additivenutrition labeling
- 202-2985148-8 PISTACHIO, IN SHELL Import division DNBI. Salmonella
Data and downloads
Download all 38 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
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Jordan country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →