Sri Lanka — Spices, Flavors, and Salts

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Sri Lanka received 22 FDA import refusals in Spices, Flavors, and Salts between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 4 in 2025-Q4, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unapproved, filthy, and salmonella. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Sri Lanka, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.

Of these, 12 were hazard refusals and 10 were paperwork refusals.

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Quarterly rejections, last 12 quarters

By commodity, last 156 weeks

Commodity	Rejections	Per $1B US imports	Most-cited hazard
Spices-Other	22	220.3	unapproved

Recent rejections

1FX-5089707-2 2026-07-13 DSEICINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) unapproved
1FX-5109415-8 2026-05-20 DSEICINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) unapproved
1FX-5089282-6 2026-05-20 DSEICINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) unapproved
1FX-5089369-1 2026-05-20 DSEICINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) unapproved
1FX-4992923-4 2026-05-12 DSEICINNAMON, CASSIA, NATURAL EXTRACT OR FLAVOR (SPICE) unapproved
799-4722612-8 2026-03-10 DSEICINNAMON, CASSIA, NATURAL EXTRACT OR FLAVOR (SPICE) unapproved
109-1073776-5 2026-02-08 DNEICINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) salmonella
109-1073297-2 2026-01-05 DNEICINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) salmonella
JE8-1029471-8 2025-11-21 DWCIESSENTIAL OILS FOR FLAVORING, N.E.C. unapproved
322-5309941-4 2025-11-18 DNEICINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) pb-food
109-1072717-0 2025-11-03 DNEICINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) salmonella
799-4333590-3 2025-10-22 DSEICINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) adddrugbio
KM6-1631087-6 2025-07-22 DWCICINNAMON, CASSIA, WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
KM6-1625471-0 2025-03-27 DWCICINNAMON, CASSIA, WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
799-5997718-3 2025-02-21 DSEICINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) unapproved
SCS-7436034-2 2024-12-11 DSEICURRY POWDER, GROUND, CRACKED, WITHOUT SALT salmonella
799-4378319-2 2024-11-21 DSEICINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) unapproved
SQ4-0513549-3 2024-07-15 DNBICINNAMON, CASSIA, WHOLE (SPICE) filthy
D52-0289206-9 2024-05-16 DWCICINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) filthy
D52-0282526-7 2024-04-12 DWCICINNAMON, CASSIA, WHOLE (SPICE) filthy