South Korea — Spices, Flavors, and Salts
South Korea received 4 FDA import refusals in Spices, Flavors, and Salts between 2024-Q2 and 2026-Q3. Volume is newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are ingredients not listed, preservative not declared, and no common name. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from South Korea, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
Key figures
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of these, 1 were hazard refusals and 3 were paperwork refusals.
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Quarterly refusals, last 10 quarters
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spices-Other | 4 | — | — | preservative not declared |
"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
- EVJ-1265443-3 MIXED SPICES AND SEASONINGS, LIQUID, WITH SALT, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. ingredients not listedpreservative not declaredno common nameinsanitary handling
- E8L-2601345-3 PEPPER, MIXED, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DWCI. listing refusal
- 98K-2253089-5 CAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. FSVP violation
- B7S-2402204-9 SPICES, FLAVORS AND SALT NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. inadequate process controlno acidified-food filing
Data and downloads
Download all 4 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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South Korea country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →