Pakistan — Multiple Food Dinners, Gravies, Sauces, and Specialties (Total Diet)
Pakistan received 13 FDA import refusals in Multiple Food Dinners, Gravies, Sauces, and Specialties (Total Diet) between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 3 in 2026-Q1, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unsafe color additive, color not declared, and filth. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Pakistan, 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 Pakistan
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 13 refusals in the last 3 years, 11 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (4); DWCI — West Coast (4); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (3).
- Riskiest months
- March, May, February, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe color additive (4), filth (3), pesticide residue (2), undeclared allergen (1), poisonous or deleterious substance (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (4), false or misleading label (1), FSVP violation (1).
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sauces-Prepared | 13 | — | — | 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
- H67-1723782-9 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- KM6-3678691-5 CHILI SAUCE Import division DNEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- KM6-1643578-0 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filthunsafe color additivecolor not declared
- KM6-3670578-2 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- KM6-1643416-3 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- KM6-3668072-0 CHILI SAUCE Import division DNEI. color not declared
- KM6-3663161-6 CHILI SAUCE Import division DNEI. unsafe color additive
- KM6-1626382-8 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. ingredients not listedlabel not conspicuousfalse or misleading labelundeclared allergen+1 more
- J89-0145004-1 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. under-processed
- 8P5-0067110-9 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- H67-1672765-5 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- KM6-1609160-9 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- KM6-1611007-8 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. FSVP violation
- KM6-1600789-4 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- KM6-1588941-7 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. unsafe food additive
- KM6-1586605-0 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. no process filing
- 9MQ-0080200-4 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 17 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 2026-10-10. To get new ones for Pakistan by email, watch Pakistan.
Pakistan country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →