Sri Lanka — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans

Sri Lanka received 20 FDA import refusals in Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 12 in 2026-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issue is unapproved new drug. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Sri Lanka, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.

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Key figures

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Hazard or paperwork: Of 20 refusals in the last 3 years, 0 were hazard findings and 20 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
Where refusals happen: DSEI — Southeast (19); DNEI — Northeast (1).
Riskiest months: September, October, February, by refusals since 2020.
Paperwork to get right: unapproved new drug (20).

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

hazard findings labelling & registration

Show the numbers

Quarter	Refusals	Paperwork
2024-Q1	0	0
2024-Q2	0	0
2024-Q3	0	0
2024-Q4	0	0
2025-Q1	0	0
2025-Q2	1	1
2025-Q3	0	0
2025-Q4	0	0
2026-Q1	1	1
2026-Q2	0	0
2026-Q3	12	12
2026-Q4	6	6

By commodity, last 156 weeks

Commodity	Refusals	1 refusal per	Per $1B US imports	Most-cited hazard
Supplements	15	—	—	unapproved new drug
Herbals-Botanicals	5	—	—	unapproved new drug

"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

AEK-2187557-9 2026-10-21 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-2044247-0 2026-10-21 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
1FX-5325489-3 2026-10-19 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
1FX-5311889-0 2026-10-19 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-9580948-7 2026-10-08 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-2068533-4 2026-10-06 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-9855355-3 2026-09-24 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-9687388-8 2026-09-22 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-9687410-0 2026-09-22 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-9687413-4 2026-09-16 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-9797503-9 2026-09-14 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-2044239-7 2026-09-14 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-9687435-7 2026-09-03 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-9600123-3 2026-09-02 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-9687391-2 2026-08-31 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-9844723-6 2026-08-25 VITAMIN, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
SCS-0422548-6 2026-07-28 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-0553490-3 2026-07-02 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
AEK-9448616-2 2026-02-17 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unapproved new drug
SCS-0708213-9 2025-06-18 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug

Data and downloads

Download all 24 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 →