Thailand — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans
Thailand received 18 FDA import refusals in Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 4 in 2024-Q2, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unapproved new drug, nutrition labeling, and supplement labeling. 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 vitamins, minerals, proteins, and unconventional dietary specialties for humans from Thailand
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 18 refusals in the last 3 years, 5 were hazard findings and 13 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (13); DWCI — West Coast (4); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (1).
- Riskiest months
- January, February, April, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- poisonous substance (2), new dietary ingredient (1), unsafe dietary ingredient (1), unsafe dietary use (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- unapproved new drug (7), supplement labeling (5), nutrition labeling (5).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025-Q1 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supplements | 11 | — | — | unapproved new drug |
| Herbals-Botanicals | 7 | — | — | unauthorized health claim |
"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-2006171-8 BETEL NUT (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. poisonous substance
- AEK-0899871-7 BETEL NUT (HERBAL AND BOTANICAL TEAS II, CONTINUED) Import division DSEI. poisonous substance
- AEK-0568051-6 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unauthorized health claim
- AEK-0521711-1 VEGETABLE PROTEIN POWDER (VIT/MIN/PROTEIN/UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPEC FOR HUMAN/ANIMAL, N.E.C.) Import division DSEI. unsafe dietary use
- SCS-0176579-8 PROTEIN N.E.C. Import division DWCI. ingredients not listeddietary ingredient labelingunapproved new drug
- SCS-4467908-8 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-9194799-2 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in Englishunapproved new drug
- AEK-8452138-2 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. nutrition labelingunapproved new drug
- SCS-8620830-7 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICAL TEAS II, CONTINUED) Import division DSEI. no adequate directionslabel not conspicuousno manufacturer namenew dietary ingredient+1 more
- 9LR-1176350-1 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. supplement labelingno contact informationnutrition labeling
- SCS-7287899-8 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 9LR-1175037-5 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. supplement labelingno manufacturer namenutrition labeling
- 9LR-1169099-3 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. supplement labelingno contact informationnutrition labeling
- SCS-6363754-4 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-5038373-4 BORAGE OIL (FATS AND LIPID SUBSTANCES) Import division DSEI. no adequate directionssupplement labelingno manufacturer namelabeling+1 more
- 799-0386085-7 HERBALS & BOTANICAL TEAS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. supplement labelingno contact informationunauthorized health claim
- SCS-3004240-6 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in English
- SCS-2879155-0 KRATOM (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. unsafe dietary ingredient
- AEK-2655219-8 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- SCS-2149439-1 HERBALS & BOTANICAL TEAS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in Englishnutrition labeling
Data and downloads
Download all 30 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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Thailand country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →