Turkey — Spices, Flavors, and Salts

Turkey received 10 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, unsafe color additive, and poisonous or deleterious substance. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from Turkey, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.

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Key figures

If you import spices, flavors, and salts from Turkey

Hazard or paperwork: Of 10 refusals in the last 3 years, 9 were hazard findings and 1 paperwork alone.
Where refusals happen: DNEI — Northeast (7); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (2); DSEI — Southeast (1).
Riskiest months: March, May, August, by refusals since 2020.
Test for before shipping: Salmonella (5), poisonous or deleterious substance (2), unsafe color additive (2), FD&C Yellow No. 5 undeclared (1).
Paperwork to get right: color not declared (1), no manufacturer name (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

hazard findings labelling & registration

Show the numbers

Quarter	Refusals	Hazard	Paperwork
2024-Q1	2	2	0
2024-Q2	0	0	0
2024-Q3	1	1	0
2024-Q4	0	0	0
2025-Q1	0	0	0
2025-Q2	1	1	0
2025-Q3	1	1	0
2025-Q4	0	0	0
2026-Q1	2	2	0
2026-Q2	2	1	1
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	10	3,220 t	74.4	Salmonella
All products with import tonnes on record	10	3,220 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

DF4-1647484-2 2026-10-15 MINT, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNBI. Salmonella
523-1460576-8 2026-06-24 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
799-5750586-6 2026-05-28 POPPYSEED, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNBI. no manufacturer name
9AG-0089001-4 2026-03-16 MIXED SPICES AND SEASONING WITH SALT, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declaredFD&C Yellow No. 5 undeclared
DP4-3998719-0 2026-03-13 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
DP4-8659018-6 2025-08-20 CUMIN, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
F23-9329289-1 2025-05-21 MINT, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
024-1663802-7 2024-09-25 PAPRIKA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
F23-9308997-4 2024-03-28 SAFFRON, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. unsafe color additive
024-1659028-5 2024-03-27 PAPRIKA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
DP4-8424342-4 2021-10-19 SALT (TABLE SALT) N.E.C. Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
J89-0135468-0 2021-04-13 MINT, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DWCI. Salmonella
J89-0135322-9 2020-09-30 MINT, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DWCI. Salmonella
CIU-8109403-3 2020-08-26 CUMIN, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DWCI. Salmonella
J89-0135485-4 2020-07-01 MINT, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
J89-0135410-2 2020-05-29 MINT, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
655-2204682-4 2020-02-12 MARJORAM, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella

Data and downloads

Download all 17 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 2026-10-15. To get new ones for Turkey by email, watch Turkey.

Turkey country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →