Mexico — Multiple Food Dinners, Gravies, Sauces, and Specialties (Total Diet)
Mexico received 50 FDA import refusals in Multiple Food Dinners, Gravies, Sauces, and Specialties (Total Diet) between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 13 in 2026-Q1, with the trend rising year-on-year. The most-cited issues are FSVP violation, no process filing, and not in English. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Mexico, 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 Mexico
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 53 refusals in the last 3 years, 27 were hazard findings and 26 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (52); DSEI — Southeast (1).
- Riskiest months
- February, January, March, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (8), lead (8), poisonous or deleterious substance (6), unsafe color additive (5), undeclared allergen (2).
- Paperwork to get right
- FSVP violation (12), no process filing (11), no food-canning registration (9).
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 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2024-Q2 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 9 | 5 | 4 |
| 2025-Q2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 13 | 2 | 11 |
| 2026-Q2 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-Q3 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sauces-Prepared | 53 | — | — | FSVP violation |
"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
- BJG-0223283-2 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. no acidified-food filingno food-canning registrationno process filing
- BJG-0221028-3 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. label not conspicuousnot in English
- BJG-0221219-8 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. not in English
- BJG-0219758-9 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. unsafe food additiveno food-canning registrationno process filing
- BJG-0215716-1 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. not in Englishno food-canning registrationno process filing
- BJG-0210895-8 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. undeclared allergenno process filing
- 88V-0088010-4 MOLE SAUCE Import division DSWI. filthlabel not conspicuousnot in Englishlabeling+1 more
- EDR-2264005-4 MOLE PASTE Import division DSWI. FSVP violation
- AE3-1325159-5 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. nutrition labeling
- EDR-2263681-3 MOLE PASTE Import division DSWI. FSVP violation
- EDR-2264185-4 MOLE PASTE Import division DSWI. FSVP violation
- EDR-2264162-3 MOLE PASTE Import division DSWI. FSVP violation
- EDR-2264006-2 MOLE PASTE Import division DSWI. FSVP violation
- EFP-2600065-8 MOLE SAUCE Import division DSWI. filth
- EDR-2264004-7 MOLE PASTE Import division DSWI. FSVP violation
- EDR-2264353-8 MOLE PASTE Import division DSWI. FSVP violation
- EDR-2263980-9 MOLE PASTE Import division DSWI. FSVP violationpoisonous or deleterious substance
- EDR-2264003-9 MOLE PASTE Import division DSWI. FSVP violation
- EDR-2263393-5 MOLE PASTE Import division DSWI. FSVP violation
- EDR-2263439-6 MOLE PASTE Import division DSWI. FSVP violation
Data and downloads
Download all 79 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 2026-10-20. To get new ones for Mexico by email, watch Mexico.
Mexico country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →