Senegal — Fishery/Seafood Products — Tuna

Senegal received 74 FDA import refusals in Tuna, part of Fishery/Seafood Products between 2023-Q2 and 2026-Q1. Volume peaked at 24 in 2025-Q3, with the trend rising year-on-year. The most-cited issues are histamine, inadequate process control, and filth. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Senegal, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.

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Key figures

If you import tuna from Senegal

Hazard or paperwork: Of 70 refusals in the last 3 years, 68 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
Where refusals happen: DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (20); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (15); DWCI — West Coast (15).
Riskiest months: August, March, April, by refusals since 2020.
Test for before shipping: histamine (59), filth (19), poisonous substance (5), under-processed (1).
Paperwork to get right: inadequate process control (27), no acidified-food filing (4), no food-canning registration (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

hazard findings labelling & registration

Show the numbers

Quarter	Refusals	Hazard	Paperwork
2023-Q2	2	2	0
2023-Q3	2	2	0
2023-Q4	0	0	0
2024-Q1	0	0	0
2024-Q2	7	7	0
2024-Q3	1	1	0
2024-Q4	4	4	0
2025-Q1	17	17	0
2025-Q2	7	7	0
2025-Q3	24	22	2
2025-Q4	9	9	0
2026-Q1	1	1	0

Recent refusals

N5D-2500164-5 2026-01-15 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DSEI. histamine
N5D-2502488-6 2025-11-13 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DWCI. poisonous substanceinadequate process controlno acidified-food filing
N5D-2502595-8 2025-11-13 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DWCI. poisonous substanceinadequate process controlno acidified-food filing
N5D-2502493-6 2025-11-13 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DWCI. poisonous substanceinadequate process controlno acidified-food filing
N5D-2502487-8 2025-11-13 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DWCI. poisonous substanceinadequate process controlno acidified-food filing
N5D-2502637-8 2025-10-24 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNEI. histamine
N5D-2502600-6 2025-10-16 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DSEI. histamineinadequate process control
N5D-2502633-7 2025-10-16 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DSEI. histamineinadequate process control
N5D-2503073-5 2025-10-02 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DSWI. histaminefilthinadequate process control
N5D-2502167-6 2025-10-01 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNBI. histamineinadequate process control
N5D-2503153-5 2025-09-23 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNBI. histamineinadequate process control
N5D-2500924-2 2025-09-08 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DSWI. inadequate process control
N5D-2502634-5 2025-09-05 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNEI. histaminefilth
AEK-7507404-5 2025-09-05 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNEI. histaminefilth
AEK-7519204-5 2025-09-05 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNEI. histaminefilth
N5D-2502481-1 2025-09-03 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNEI. histaminefilthinadequate process control
N5D-2502638-6 2025-09-03 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNEI. filthno food-canning registrationhistamine
390-5366402-3 2025-09-03 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNEI. histaminefilthinadequate process control
N5D-2503184-0 2025-09-02 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNBI. histamineinadequate process control
390-5366385-0 2025-08-26 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DSEI. histaminefilthinadequate process control

Data and downloads

Download all 74 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.

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Senegal country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →