Thailand — Spices, Flavors, and Salts
Thailand received 4 FDA import refusals in Spices, Flavors, and Salts between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume is rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are Salmonella, poisonous or deleterious substance, and filth. 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 spices, flavors, and salts from Thailand
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 5 refusals in the last 3 years, 4 were hazard findings and 1 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (4); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (1).
- Riskiest months
- February, June, October, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- Salmonella (3), filth (1), poisonous or deleterious substance (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- label not conspicuous (1), labeling (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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spices-Other | 5 | 1,007 t | 238.0 | Salmonella |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 5 | 1,007 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
- 8NP-0813097-7 WHOLE SPICE, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- 555-0727946-5 CAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DWCI. filthSalmonella
- AC1-6555299-6 TURMERIC, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNBI. ingredients not listedno net quantitynot in Englishnutrition labeling+4 more
- 555-0721116-1 CAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- EJ2-0164787-5 PANDANUS LEAF, NATURAL EXTRACT OR FLAVOR (SPICE) Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- 555-0705428-0 CAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- 906-0332483-4 GINGER, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DWCI. sulfites not declared
- D52-0158983-1 SPICES, GROUND, CRACKED, ETC., N.E.C. Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- D52-0137432-5 SPICES, GROUND, CRACKED, ETC., N.E.C. Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- SCS-1951870-5 CURRY LEAF, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DSEI. no manufacturer nameno net quantity
- BDD-0686443-9 CURRY POWDER, LIQUID, WITHOUT SALT Import division DWCI. insanitary conditions
- 555-0676745-2 CAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- AEK-6805767-5 GINGER, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substancelabelingfilth
Data and downloads
Download all 13 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 2026-10-07. To get new ones for Thailand by email, watch Thailand.
Thailand country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →