Philippines — Multiple Food Dinners, Gravies, Sauces, and Specialties (Total Diet) — Sauces-Prepared
Philippines received 248 FDA import refusals in Sauces-Prepared, part of Multiple Food Dinners, Gravies, Sauces, and Specialties (Total Diet) between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 63 in 2025-Q1, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are nutrition labeling, false or misleading label, and label not conspicuous. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Philippines, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
Key figures
If you import sauces-prepared from Philippines
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 248 refusals in the last 3 years, 219 were hazard findings and 29 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (182); DNEI — Northeast (53); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (6).
- Riskiest months
- September, January, February, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe food additive (188), unsafe color additive (60), undeclared allergen (4), filth (2), unsafe substance (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (64), nutrition labeling (62), false or misleading label (39).
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.
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Quarterly refusals, last 12 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| 2024-Q2 | 29 | 26 | 3 |
| 2024-Q3 | 56 | 55 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 19 | 18 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 63 | 63 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 19 | 19 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 24 | 20 | 4 |
| 2025-Q4 | 19 | 12 | 7 |
| 2026-Q1 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- BDD-6800969-1 BANANA SAUCE Import division DWCI. unsafe color additivelabel not conspicuousfalse or misleading labelcolor not declared+1 more
- BDD-6801408-9 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. ingredients not listedunsafe food additivelabel not conspicuousno common name+1 more
- TZ6-6169081-6 BANANA SAUCE Import division DNEI. labeling
- KM6-3667467-3 CHILI SAUCE Import division DNEI. ingredients not listedno net quantitynutrition labeling
- TZ6-6169082-4 BANANA SAUCE Import division DNEI. false or misleading labelnot in Englishnutrition labeling
- BDD-6801057-4 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. false or misleading labelnot in Englishnutrition labeling
- BDD-6710076-4 BANANA SAUCE Import division DWCI. false or misleading labelnot in Englishnutrition labeling
- KM6-3667284-2 CHILI SAUCE Import division DNEI. not to standard of identityno standard name
- 427-8312791-5 BANANA SAUCE Import division DWCI. label not conspicuousfalse or misleading labelnutrition labeling
- 8NP-0811266-0 BANANA SAUCE Import division DWCI. nutrition labelingcolor not declared
- 8NP-0811269-4 BANANA SAUCE Import division DWCI. nutrition labeling
- 224-3647530-9 BANANA SAUCE Import division DWCI. label not conspicuousfalse or misleading labelnutrition labeling
- BDD-6709738-2 BANANA SAUCE Import division DWCI. label not conspicuousfalse or misleading labelnutrition labeling
- KM6-3658952-5 BANANA SAUCE Import division DNEI. false or misleading labelcolor additive labelingnutrition labelingcolor not declared
- ES6-4057381-3 BANANA SAUCE Import division DNEI. nutrition labeling
- 065-0607511-5 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unsafe color additivenutrition labeling
- TZ6-6158782-2 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. color not declaredunsafe food additiveunsafe color additive
- BDD-6709444-7 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unsafe color additivelabel not conspicuousfalse or misleading labelcolor additive labeling+1 more
- 8NP-0810052-5 BANANA SAUCE Import division DWCI. false or misleading labelnutrition labeling
- BDD-0834338-2 BANANA SAUCE Import division DWCI. nutrition labeling
Data and downloads
Download all 279 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 2026-09-29. To get new ones for Philippines by email, watch Philippines.
Philippines country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →