Spain — Vegetables and Vegetable Products
Spain received 6 FDA import refusals in Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2025-Q4, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are no process filing, nutrition labeling, and no food-canning registration. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Spain, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import vegetables and vegetable products from Spain
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 6 refusals in the last 3 years, 3 were hazard findings and 3 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (4); DNEI — Northeast (2).
- Riskiest months
- December, March, August, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- insanitary handling (3), insanitary plant (2), insanitary conditions (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- inadequate process control (1), no acidified-food filing (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 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegetables-Other | 5 | 19,750 t | 14.4 | insanitary handling |
| Pepper | 1 | — | — | no acidified-food filing |
| Leafy | 0 | — | — | — |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 6 | 27,203 t |
"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
- 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
- U46-1096589-7 PEPPER, HOT, WITH SAUCE Import division DNEI. inadequate process controlno acidified-food filing
- 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
- BOZ-0039358-3 PEPPER, SWEET (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. no net quantitynot in Englishnutrition 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
- N26-1220082-5 PEPPER, SWEET (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. no net quantitynutrition labelingno food-canning registrationno process filing
- CNF-0001187-4 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
Data and downloads
Download all 13 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 →