South Korea — Multiple Food Dinners, Gravies, Sauces and Specialties
South Korea received 5 FDA import refusals in Multiple Food Dinners, Gravies, Sauces and Specialties between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume is falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are no process filing, nutrition labeling, and ingredients not listed. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from South Korea, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import multiple food dinners, gravies, sauces and specialties from South Korea
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 5 refusals in the last 3 years, 0 were hazard findings and 5 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (3); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (1); DWCI — West Coast (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (4), listing refusal (1), 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
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sauces-Prepared | 5 | — | — | no process filing |
"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
- EJA-5232385-6 BARBECUE SAUCE Import division DWCI. no process filing
- U47-2601957-1 SOY SAUCE Import division DNEI. listing refusal
- KM6-3659074-7 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. no process filing
- KM6-3654364-7 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- EJU-0052210-1 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. no process filing
- 98K-2239394-8 BEAN CURD, FRESH - SOFT OR HARD (MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALTIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS) Import division DNEI. ingredients not listednot in Englishnutrition labeling
- HE8-0189767-0 BEAN CURD, FRESH - SOFT OR HARD (MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALTIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS) Import division DWCI. ingredients not listednot in Englishtrans fatnutrition labeling
- HE8-0189548-4 BEAN CURD, FRESH - SOFT OR HARD (MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALTIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS) Import division DWCI. nutrition labeling
- EPM-0155256-7 BEAN CURD, FRESH - SOFT OR HARD (PACKAGE CONTAINS SEPARATE COMPONENTS, REQUIRE MIX/COOK) Import division DWCI. ingredients not listednot in Englishnutrition labeling
Data and downloads
Download all 9 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 2026-07-31. To get new ones for South Korea by email, watch South Korea.
South Korea country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →