Senegal — Fishery/Seafood Products
Senegal received 77 FDA import refusals in Fishery/Seafood Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 24 in 2025-Q3, with the trend falling sharply 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 fishery/seafood products from Senegal
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 77 refusals in the last 3 years, 73 were hazard findings and 4 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (20); DNEI — Northeast (16); DWCI — West Coast (16).
- Riskiest months
- August, March, April, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- histamine (59), filth (22), poisonous substance (5), undeclared allergen (1), Salmonella (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- inadequate process control (27), no acidified-food filing (4), no net quantity (2).
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 18 | 18 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 24 | 22 | 2 |
| 2025-Q4 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuna | 70 | — | — | histamine |
| Fish-Other | 7 | — | — | filth |
"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
- 823-0223518-7 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- 8B4-0012422-6 SARDINES (BRISLING, SPRATS, PILCHARDS, ETC.) Import division DNEI. ingredients not listedno net quantitynot in Englishno common name+3 more
- 823-0224107-8 GROUPERS Import division DNEI. ingredients not listednot to standard of identityno manufacturer nameno net quantity+1 more
- N5D-2500164-5 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DSEI. histamine
- 823-0217720-7 FISH MAW, FISHERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- AQZ-0622128-0 SNAILS, AQUATIC, OTHER AQUATIC SPECIES Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- N5D-2502488-6 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DWCI. poisonous substanceinadequate process controlno acidified-food filing
- N5D-2502595-8 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DWCI. poisonous substanceinadequate process controlno acidified-food filing
- N5D-2502493-6 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DWCI. poisonous substanceinadequate process controlno acidified-food filing
- N5D-2502487-8 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DWCI. poisonous substanceinadequate process controlno acidified-food filing
- N5D-2502637-8 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNEI. histamine
- N5D-2502600-6 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DSEI. histamineinadequate process control
- N5D-2502633-7 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DSEI. histamineinadequate process control
- N5D-2503073-5 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DSWI. histaminefilthinadequate process control
- N5D-2502167-6 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNBI. histamineinadequate process control
- N5D-2503153-5 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNBI. histamineinadequate process control
- N5D-2500924-2 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DSWI. inadequate process control
- N5D-2502634-5 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNEI. histaminefilth
- AEK-7507404-5 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNEI. histaminefilth
- AEK-7519204-5 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DNEI. histaminefilth
Data and downloads
Download all 82 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 →