Spain — Spices, Flavors, and Salts
Spain received 19 FDA import refusals in Spices, Flavors, and Salts between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 6 in 2024-Q1, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are required information omitted, filth, and color not declared. 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 spices, flavors, and salts from Spain
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 30 refusals in the last 3 years, 17 were hazard findings and 13 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (16); DNEI — Northeast (8); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (5).
- Riskiest months
- December, May, July, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (11), Salmonella (3), unsafe color additive (3).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (4), no manufacturer name (2), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spices-Other | 30 | 682 t | 245.7 | required information omitted |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 30 | 682 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
- BLS-9054207-7 SAFFRON, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNBI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- SCS-6625088-1 SAFFRON, NATURAL EXTRACT OR FLAVOR (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- SCS-6564401-9 SAFFRON, NATURAL EXTRACT OR FLAVOR (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- SCS-6786341-9 SAFFRON, NATURAL EXTRACT OR FLAVOR (SPICE) Import division DSEI. color not declarednot in English
- SCS-5069322-9 SAFFRON, NATURAL EXTRACT OR FLAVOR (SPICE) Import division DSEI. required information omitted
- BNI-0124940-6 SAFFRON, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. substitutionrequired information omitted
- SCS-3139986-2 SAFFRON, NATURAL EXTRACT OR FLAVOR (SPICE) Import division DSEI. required information omitted
- SCS-2861855-5 SAFFRON, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DSEI. required information omitted
- 512-1090563-7 SAFFRON, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DSWI. required information omitted
- 551-1488520-2 CORIANDER, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNBI. no manufacturer nameno net quantitySalmonella
- 799-0265079-6 SAFFRON, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DSEI. required information omitted
- 799-0229256-5 RASPBERRY, NATURAL EXTRACT OR FLAVOR (SPICE) Import division DSEI. nutrition labeling
- SCS-3148933-3 SAFFRON, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DSEI. required information omitted
- KM6-3606466-9 SAFFRON, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. filth
- 551-3920233-4 CORIANDER, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- 551-3908004-5 CORIANDER, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- KC1-4781729-2 SAFFRON, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. filth
- KC1-4781806-8 SAFFRON, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. filth
- 231-8157463-9 SAFFRON, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. filth
- SCS-9806992-8 SAFFRON, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DSEI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 53 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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Spain country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →