Sri Lanka — Spices, Flavors, and Salts — Spices-Other
Sri Lanka received 27 FDA import refusals in Spices-Other, part of Spices, Flavors, and Salts between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 5 in 2026-Q4, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unapproved new drug, unapproved biologic, and Salmonella. Measured against US import value, that runs at 270.3 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from Sri Lanka over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import spices-other from Sri Lanka
Above the median. Sri Lanka ranks 8th of 17 origins shipping spices-other to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 270.3 — above 56% of them.
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- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 27 refusals in the last 3 years, 12 were hazard findings and 15 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 377 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the highest refusal rate of 10 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (15); DWCI — West Coast (7); DNEI — Northeast (4).
- Riskiest months
- February, October, May, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (7), Salmonella (4), lead (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- unapproved new drug (11).
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 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026-Q1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Recent refusals
- AEK-9868857-3 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 1FX-2082563-5 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 1FX-7678577-3 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unapproved biologic
- 1FX-8572036-5 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unapproved biologic
- AEK-9687482-9 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unapproved biologic
- 1FX-5089707-2 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 1FX-5109415-8 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 1FX-5089282-6 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 1FX-5089369-1 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 1FX-4992923-4 CINNAMON, CASSIA, NATURAL EXTRACT OR FLAVOR (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 799-4722612-8 CINNAMON, CASSIA, NATURAL EXTRACT OR FLAVOR (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 109-1073776-5 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- 109-1073297-2 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- JE8-1029471-8 ESSENTIAL OILS FOR FLAVORING, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unapproved new drug
- 322-5309941-4 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. lead
- 109-1072717-0 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- 799-4333590-3 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unapproved biologic
- KM6-1631087-6 CINNAMON, CASSIA, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DWCI. filth
- KM6-1625471-0 CINNAMON, CASSIA, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DWCI. filth
- 799-5997718-3 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
Data and downloads
Download all 30 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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Sri Lanka country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →