Peru — Spices, Flavors, and Salts — Spices-Other

Lower risk. Peru ranks 14th of 17 origins shipping spices-other to the US on border rejections per $1 billion of US imports, at 92.4 — above 19% of them.

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Peru received 18 FDA import refusals in Spices-Other, part of Spices, Flavors, and Salts between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 9 in 2025-Q1, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filthy, lacks firm, and list ingre. Measured against US import value, that runs at 92.4 notifications per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Peru over the last 3 years.

Of these, 17 were hazard refusals and 1 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

Recent rejections

EJ2-0204112-8 2026-07-27 DWCIPAPRIKA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) filthy
BDN-0205476-0 2026-04-27 DWCIPAPRIKA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) filthylacks firmlist ingrelacks n/c+1 more
906-0493293-2 2025-09-03 DWCICAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
906-0476857-5 2025-05-27 DWCICAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
906-0477744-4 2025-05-14 DWCICAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
906-0475548-1 2025-05-14 DWCICAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), WHOLE (SPICE) filthylacks firm
906-0465659-8 2025-03-26 DWCIPAPRIKA, WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
906-0465392-6 2025-03-19 DWCICAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
906-0465669-7 2025-03-11 DWCICAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
906-0466307-3 2025-03-07 DWCICAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
906-0462849-8 2025-03-04 DWCICAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
906-0465617-6 2025-02-18 DWCICAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
906-0465625-9 2025-02-14 DWCICAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
906-0455402-5 2025-02-12 DWCICAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
906-0465674-7 2025-02-12 DWCICAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
516-2156992-3 2024-05-02 DSEISPICES AND SEASONING, GROUND, CRACKED, WITH SALT, N.E.C. salmonella
K79-0179224-5 2023-12-21 DSWIPAPRIKA, WHOLE (SPICE) fsvp vio
906-0411765-8 2023-12-18 DWCICAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
906-0400770-1 2023-08-22 DWCIPAPRIKA, WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
158-2303115-6 2023-04-06 DWCIPAPRIKA, WHOLE (SPICE) filthy