Mexico — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans
Mexico received 234 FDA import refusals in Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 30 in 2025-Q3, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unapproved new drug, not in English, and establishment not listed. 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 vitamins, minerals, proteins, and unconventional dietary specialties for humans from Mexico
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 238 refusals in the last 3 years, 21 were hazard findings and 217 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (209); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (27); DWCI — West Coast (2).
- Riskiest months
- December, November, January, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- insanitary handling (7), insanitary plant (5), unapproved animal drug (5), unsafe food additive (4), filth (2).
- Paperwork to get right
- unapproved new drug (136), not in English (96), nutrition labeling (41).
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 | 19 | 2 | 17 |
| 2024-Q2 | 14 | 1 | 13 |
| 2024-Q3 | 26 | 3 | 23 |
| 2024-Q4 | 29 | 3 | 26 |
| 2025-Q1 | 18 | 2 | 16 |
| 2025-Q2 | 23 | 2 | 21 |
| 2025-Q3 | 30 | 3 | 27 |
| 2025-Q4 | 16 | 1 | 15 |
| 2026-Q1 | 22 | 1 | 21 |
| 2026-Q2 | 13 | 1 | 12 |
| 2026-Q3 | 21 | 2 | 19 |
| 2026-Q4 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supplements | 192 | — | — | unapproved new drug |
| Herbals-Botanicals | 46 | — | — | not in English |
"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
- AEK-9843471-3 VITAMIN C (ASCORBIC ACID) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-9633699-3 VITAMIN B6 (PYRIDOXINE) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 918-5456115-5 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSWI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- CCH-1204898-2 VITAMIN A Import division DSWI. false or misleading label
- 1FX-8095422-5 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved biologic
- 1FX-0668404-8 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement labelingnot in Englishnutrition labeling
- AEK-9615268-9 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in Englishnutrition labeling
- AEK-9628257-7 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in English
- 1FX-3405619-3 MULTIPLE VITAMINS (MVI-12 VITAMIN COMBO) (VITAMIN) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 1FX-8990523-6 VITAMIN B12 (CYANOCOBALAMIN) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-0894352-3 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in Englishunapproved new drug
- AEK-0894584-1 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in Englishunsafe food additiveunapproved new drug
- 1FX-0065306-4 OMEGA-3 (FATS AND LIPID SUBSTANCES) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-0701619-8 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. label not conspicuousnot in Englishnutrition labeling
- 1FX-8676380-2 ZINC (MINERAL) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-0727749-3 VITAMIN B1 (THIAMINE) Import division DSEI. establishment not listedunapproved new drug
- AEK-0744163-6 MULTIPLE VITAMINS (MVI-12 VITAMIN COMBO) (VITAMIN) Import division DSEI. establishment not listedunapproved new drug
- AEK-0705246-6 VITAMIN B6 (PYRIDOXINE) Import division DSEI. establishment not listedunapproved new drug
- 1FX-6014920-0 GINKGO BILOBA (HERBAL & BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS) Import division DSEI. establishment not listedforeign plant not registerednot in English
- AEK-0552157-9 VITAMIN B12 (CYANOCOBALAMIN) Import division DSEI. not in Englishunapproved animal drug
Data and downloads
Download all 550 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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Mexico country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →