Tanzania — Fishery/Seafood Products
Tanzania received 78 FDA import refusals in Fishery/Seafood Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 21 in 2025-Q4, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are insanitary plant, no common name, and no manufacturer name. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Tanzania, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fishery/seafood products from Tanzania
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 78 refusals in the last 3 years, 74 were hazard findings and 4 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (35); DWCI — West Coast (19); DNEI — Northeast (11).
- Riskiest months
- March, October, December, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- insanitary plant (65), insanitary conditions (6), filth (3), foreign object (1), insanitary handling (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no common name (16), no manufacturer name (10), no net quantity (8).
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025-Q1 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 21 | 21 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 15 | 14 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish-Other | 78 | — | — | insanitary plant |
"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
- BWS-0007012-1 SARDINES (BRISLING, SPRATS, PILCHARDS, ETC.) Import division DWCI. not to standard of identityinsanitary plantno manufacturer nameno net quantity+2 more
- 1FX-1721385-1 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. insanitary plant
- EAY-0053480-5 ANCHOVY Import division DWCI. insanitary plant
- D77-8000282-1 PERCH, FRESH WATER (YELLOW, LAKE) Import division DWCI. false or misleading labelinsanitary conditionsno common nameinsanitary plant
- 8DU-1816855-9 SARDINES (BRISLING, SPRATS, PILCHARDS, ETC.) Import division DWCI. ingredients not listednot to standard of identityno manufacturer nameno net quantity+3 more
- EAY-0050345-3 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. insanitary plant
- 8DU-1816836-9 SARDINES (BRISLING, SPRATS, PILCHARDS, ETC.) Import division DNBI. insanitary plant
- 8DU-1816340-2 SARDINES (BRISLING, SPRATS, PILCHARDS, ETC.) Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- EAY-0053112-4 SARDINES (BRISLING, SPRATS, PILCHARDS, ETC.) Import division DSWI. insanitary plant
- MK8-6074477-2 ANCHOVY Import division DSWI. insanitary plant
- 677-0335957-9 PERCH, FRESH WATER (YELLOW, LAKE) Import division DWCI. no manufacturer nameno net quantityno common nameingredients not listed+2 more
- 9TE-1205112-4 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. insanitary plantno common name
- 799-3583393-5 SARDINES (BRISLING, SPRATS, PILCHARDS, ETC.) Import division DSEI. insanitary plant
- 9TE-1204946-6 ANCHOVY Import division DNBI. insanitary plant
- 9TE-1205205-6 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. insanitary plantno common name
- MK8-6066869-0 ANCHOVY Import division DSWI. insanitary plant
- 120-0368697-4 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. insanitary plantno common name
- EAY-0050570-6 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. insanitary plantmisidentified
- 9TE-1204947-4 ANCHOVY Import division DNBI. insanitary plant
- EAY-0049389-5 PERCH, FRESH WATER (YELLOW, LAKE) Import division DWCI. importer HACCP failuremisidentified
Data and downloads
Download all 89 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
The file holds entries up to 2026-10-09. To get new ones for Tanzania by email, watch Tanzania.
Tanzania country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →