Taiwan — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans
Taiwan received 10 FDA import refusals in Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume is falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are nutrition labeling, unapproved new drug, and no manufacturer name. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Taiwan, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import vitamins, minerals, proteins, and unconventional dietary specialties for humans from Taiwan
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 12 refusals in the last 3 years, 2 were hazard findings and 10 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (6); DWCI — West Coast (4); DNEI — Northeast (2).
- Riskiest months
- January, July, September, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- undeclared allergen (2).
- Paperwork to get right
- unapproved new drug (7), nutrition labeling (5), unauthorized health claim (4).
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herbals-Botanicals | 6 | — | — | unapproved new drug |
| Supplements | 6 | — | — | 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
- 1FX-3352655-0 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DWCI. not in Englishestablishment not listed
- 1FX-4362295-0 EPHEDRA (HERBAL & BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS) Import division DSEI. not in English
- AY0-0135662-7 HERBALS & BOTANICAL TEAS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-7672587-6 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- SCS-2806276-3 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. no manufacturer namelabeling
- SCS-0481740-4 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. nutrition labelingunauthorized health claim
- SCS-9650440-6 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. ingredients not listedlabel not conspicuousno contact informationnutrition labeling
- AEK-8273429-2 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- U83-2351864-6 VITAMIN, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. supplement labelingundeclared allergenunapproved new drugno process filing
- U83-2351539-4 VITAMIN, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. ingredients not listedsupplement labelingno manufacturer nameno net quantity+5 more
- 8XR-0018609-6 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DWCI. ingredients not listedno manufacturer nameplant part not declarednutrition labeling+2 more
- 8XR-0019159-1 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DWCI. ingredients not listedno manufacturer nameplant part not declarednutrition labeling+2 more
- 8K9-2201285-9 VITAMIN, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. nutrition labeling
- AEK-2524283-3 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. no manufacturer namenutrition labeling
- SCS-5602362-8 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. ingredients not listedno adequate directionslabel not conspicuousno manufacturer name
- CHQ-0922642-6 SPIRULINA (VIT/MIN/PROTEIN/UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPEC FOR HUMAN/ANIMAL, N.E.C.) Import division DWCI. unsafe dietary ingredient
- AEK-1678652-5 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. no manufacturer namenutrition labeling
- BPQ-7036309-3 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSWI. nutrition labeling
- SCS-0699083-4 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in English
- SCS-0854365-6 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. nutrition labelingunauthorized health claimunapproved new drug
Data and downloads
Download all 20 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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Taiwan country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →