Philippines — Snack Food Items (Flour, Meal, or Vegetable Base)
Philippines received 12 FDA import refusals in Snack Food Items (Flour, Meal, or Vegetable Base) between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are color not declared, unsafe color additive, and ingredients not listed. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Philippines, 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 Philippines
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 12 refusals in the last 3 years, 7 were hazard findings and 5 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (9); DNEI — Northeast (2); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (1).
- Riskiest months
- March, June, July, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe color additive (5), undeclared allergen (1), Salmonella (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (5), ingredients not listed (4), nutrition labeling (4).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snacks | 12 | — | — | 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
- EJ2-0204718-2 SNACK FOODS NOT ELSEWHERE MENTIONED, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- BDD-0758295-6 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DNEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BDD-6710755-3 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DWCI. ingredients not listedno common namenutrition labeling
- 8MN-0018065-2 BAKED SNACK FOOD, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BDD-0758133-9 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additive
- BDD-6709365-4 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DWCI. ingredients not listedno common namenutrition labeling
- BDD-0834329-1 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DWCI. ingredients not listedundeclared allergennutrition labeling
- EJ2-0170008-8 CHEESE PUFFS, FIRED Import division DWCI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BDD-0689985-6 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DWCI. ingredients not listednutrition labeling
- BDD-0689686-0 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DWCI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- BDD-6705892-1 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. color not declared
- BDD-0882361-5 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DNBI. not in English
- 8MN-0013664-7 BAKED SNACK FOOD, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- 8J5-0000318-1 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- BDD-0842170-9 CORN CHIPS, FRIED Import division DSEI. color not declared
- FY1-8025653-6 YUCCA STARCH SNACKS, FRIED/OIL COOK Import division DWCI. unsafe color additivecolor not declaredFD&C Yellow No. 5 undeclared
- BDD-0686089-0 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unsafe color additivecolor not declaredingredients not listednutrition labeling
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 2026-08-25. To get new ones for Philippines by email, watch Philippines.
Philippines country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →