Saint Lucia — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans
Saint Lucia received 7 FDA import refusals in Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume is rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unapproved new drug, supplement labeling, and dietary ingredient labeling. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Saint Lucia, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import vitamins, minerals, proteins, and unconventional dietary specialties for humans from Saint Lucia
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 7 refusals in the last 3 years, 0 were hazard findings and 7 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (6); DWCI — West Coast (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- dietary ingredient labeling (4), supplement labeling (4), plant part not declared (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supplements | 5 | — | — | unapproved new drug |
| Herbals-Botanicals | 2 | — | — | unapproved new drug |
"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
- 1FX-5769925-9 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. plant part not declaredunapproved new drug
- 1FX-7482640-5 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement labelingdietary ingredient labelingplant part not declaredno contact information+2 more
- 1FX-0133126-4 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement labelingdietary ingredient labelingplant part not declaredunapproved new drug
- 8VH-2600085-4 VERVAIN (HERBAL & BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS) Import division DWCI. no adequate directionssupplement labelingplant part not declarednutrition labeling+1 more
- 799-5707704-4 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement labelingdietary ingredient labeling
- 799-4664085-2 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. ingredients not listedno manufacturer namelabeling
- 799-0843208-2 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- SCS-3158223-5 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- SCS-4295815-9 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement labelingno manufacturer namedietary ingredient labelingno contact information+1 more
- B5G-0137349-7 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. unapproved new drug
Data and downloads
Download all 10 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 2026-10-22. To get new ones for Saint Lucia by email, watch Saint Lucia.