Mexico — Snack Food Items (Flour, Meal, or Vegetable Base)
Mexico received 362 FDA import refusals in Snack Food Items (Flour, Meal, or Vegetable Base) between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 78 in 2025-Q3, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unsafe color additive, color not declared, 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 snack food items (flour, meal, or vegetable base) from Mexico
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 368 refusals in the last 3 years, 338 were hazard findings and 30 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (361); DNEI — Northeast (3); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (2).
- Riskiest months
- April, August, March, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe color additive (334), undeclared allergen (5), unsafe food additive (4), Salmonella (3), mycotoxin (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (324), nutrition labeling (84), not in English (67).
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 | 12 | 10 | 2 |
| 2024-Q2 | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 38 | 25 | 13 |
| 2024-Q4 | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| 2025-Q1 | 40 | 38 | 2 |
| 2025-Q2 | 19 | 18 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 78 | 74 | 4 |
| 2025-Q4 | 69 | 68 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 40 | 39 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 33 | 33 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snacks | 368 | — | — | 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
- NJA-0004325-9 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivelabel not conspicuousnot in Englishcolor additive labeling+1 more
- BJG-0222075-3 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- NJA-0004253-3 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BJG-0222052-2 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedlabel not conspicuouscolor not declared+3 more
- BJG-0222584-4 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BJG-0220621-6 POTATO CHIPS,FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedlabel not conspicuouscolor not declared+3 more
- BJG-0220444-3 POTATO CHIPS,FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BJG-0212855-0 POTATO CHIPS,FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BJG-0220277-7 POTATO CHIPS,FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BJG-0220489-8 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BJG-0216005-8 POTATO CHIPS,FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedlabel not conspicuouscolor not declared+3 more
- 9UG-0152403-8 POTATO CHIPS,FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedlabel not conspicuouscolor not declared+3 more
- 918-5443461-9 POTATO CHIPS,FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BJG-0220275-1 WHEAT GRAIN SNACK (WHOLE, CRACKED, SPLIT), FRIED/OIL COOKED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- 02K-0000274-5 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declarednot in English
- EEE-0104279-4 PRETZELS,FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listedcolor not declared
- BJG-0215988-6 POTATO CHIPS,FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BJG-0212828-7 POTATO CHIPS,FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BJG-0216490-2 WHEAT GRAIN SNACK (WHOLE, CRACKED, SPLIT), FRIED/OIL COOKED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BJG-0216036-3 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
Data and downloads
Download all 772 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 →