Thailand — Nuts and Edible Seeds
Thailand received 53 FDA import refusals in Nuts and Edible Seeds between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 13 in 2026-Q2, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are poisonous substance, pesticide residue, and poisonous or deleterious substance. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Thailand, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import nuts and edible seeds from Thailand
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 58 refusals in the last 3 years, 58 were hazard findings and 0 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (32); DNEI — Northeast (9); DWCI — West Coast (8).
- Riskiest months
- April, February, March, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- poisonous substance (29), pesticide residue (15), poisonous or deleterious substance (6), unsafe food additive (6), filth (3).
- Paperwork to get right
- nutrition labeling (2), label not conspicuous (1), no net quantity (1).
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 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other-Nuts | 41 | 3,604 t | 104.8 | poisonous substance |
| Sunflower | 12 | — | — | pesticide residue |
| Cashew | 2 | — | — | filth |
| Groundnut | 2 | — | — | unsafe color additive |
| Sesame | 1 | — | — | pesticide residue |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 41 | 3,604 t |
"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-9664840-5 BETEL NUT, IN SHELL Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- AEK-9701200-7 BETEL NUT, IN SHELL Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- AEK-9664727-4 BETEL NUT, IN SHELL Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- AEK-9607166-5 BETEL NUT, SHELLED Import division DSEI. poisonous substance
- AEK-0953824-9 BETEL NUT, IN SHELL Import division DSEI. poisonous substance
- SCS-0128470-0 BETEL NUT, SHELLED Import division DSEI. poisonous substance
- SCS-0437615-6 BETEL NUT, SHELLED Import division DSEI. poisonous substance
- SCS-7483681-4 BETEL NUT, SHELLED Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- SCS-5008640-1 BETEL NUT, NUT FLOUR/MEAL Import division DSEI. poisonous substance
- AEK-0441378-6 BETEL NUT, SHELLED Import division DSEI. poisonous substance
- ETS-0025124-6 SUNFLOWER SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- AEK-0346858-3 BETEL NUT, NUT FLOUR/MEAL Import division DSEI. poisonous substance
- ETS-0025320-0 SUNFLOWER SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- ETS-0025126-1 SUNFLOWER SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- ETS-0025285-5 SUNFLOWER SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- 1FX-1221965-4 BETEL NUT, SHELLED Import division DSEI. unsafe food additive
- AEK-0285558-2 BETEL NUT, IN SHELL Import division DSEI. poisonous substance
- ETS-0025211-1 SUNFLOWER SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- ETS-0025287-1 SUNFLOWER SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- ETS-0025327-5 SUNFLOWER SEED (EDIBLE SEED) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
Data and downloads
Download all 66 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 2026-10-02. To get new ones for Thailand by email, watch Thailand.
Thailand country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →