Spain — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Vegetables-Other
Spain received 5 FDA import refusals in Vegetables-Other, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2025-Q4, with the trend newly active in the last year. The most-cited issues are no process filing, insanitary handling, and no food-canning registration. Measured against US import value, that runs at 14.4 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Spain over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import vegetables-other from Spain
Lower risk. Spain ranks 22nd of 24 origins shipping vegetables-other to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 14.4 — above 9% of them.
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- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 5 refusals in the last 3 years, 3 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 19,750 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the 14th highest refusal rate of 17 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (4); DNEI — Northeast (1).
- Test for before shipping
- insanitary handling (3), insanitary plant (2), insanitary conditions (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no food-canning registration (1), not in English (1), no process filing (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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Recent refusals
- DP4-1052020-0 ARTICHOKE (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- 406-0616031-1 GARLIC BULB (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- 406-0616438-8 GARLIC BULB (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- 406-0615865-3 GARLIC BULB (ROOT & TUBER VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. insanitary conditionsinsanitary handling
- SCS-1526159-1 VEGETABLE & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in Englishnutrition labeling
- 8XA-1910474-0 ARTICHOKE (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. ingredients not listedno net quantitynutrition labeling
- B8D-0006729-5 ASPARAGUS (MICROGREEN) Import division DSEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- F87-2101403-0 LENTILS, WITH SAUCE Import division DWCI. FSVP violation
- B8D-0006629-7 MUSHROOM, CHANTERELLE, PIECES AND STEMS, SLICED Import division DSEI. no process filing
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 2026-07-22. To get new ones for Spain by email, watch Spain.
Spain country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →