United Arab Emirates — Spices, Flavors, and Salts
United Arab Emirates received 30 FDA import refusals in Spices, Flavors, and Salts between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 8 in 2026-Q1, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are insanitary handling, insanitary plant, and Salmonella. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from United Arab Emirates, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import spices, flavors, and salts from United Arab Emirates
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 30 refusals in the last 3 years, 30 were hazard findings and 0 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (12); DNEI — Northeast (10); DWCI — West Coast (6).
- Riskiest months
- January, February, April, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- Salmonella (19), insanitary handling (16), insanitary plant (12), poisonous or deleterious substance (8), filth (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- labeling (1), no common 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
Show the numbers
| Quarter | Refusals | Hazard | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spices-Other | 30 | — | 1,191 | Salmonella |
"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
- 82S-0005193-4 MIXED SPICES AND SEASONING WITH SALT, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- KM6-3684279-1 MIXED SPICE AND SEASONINGS, GROUND, CRACKED, WITHOUT SALT, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. insanitary plantinsanitary handlingSalmonella
- KM6-3682524-2 CAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handlingSalmonella
- KM6-3687469-5 MIXED SPICE AND SEASONINGS, GROUND, CRACKED, WITHOUT SALT, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. Salmonella
- KM6-3687201-2 MIXED SPICE AND SEASONINGS, GROUND, CRACKED, WITHOUT SALT, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substanceinsanitary plantinsanitary handling
- 82S-0005185-0 MIXED SPICES AND SEASONING WITH SALT, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filthpoisonous or deleterious substanceinsanitary plantinsanitary handling
- KM6-3677811-0 MIXED SPICE AND SEASONINGS, GROUND, CRACKED, WITHOUT SALT, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. poisonous or deleterious substanceinsanitary plantinsanitary handling
- 8P5-0089899-1 CAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substanceinsanitary plantinsanitary handling
- 9DH-0077929-3 CINNAMON, CASSIA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- 8P5-0091993-8 CAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substanceinsanitary handlingSalmonella
- 82S-0005050-6 PAPRIKA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNBI. insanitary plantinsanitary handlingSalmonella
- 82S-0005051-4 PAPRIKA, GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNBI. insanitary conditionsinsanitary handlingSalmonella
- 82S-0005015-9 MIXED SPICES AND SEASONING WITH SALT, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- 82S-0005014-2 MIXED SPICES AND SEASONING WITH SALT, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- 82S-0004982-1 MIXED SPICES AND SEASONING WITH SALT, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. insanitary handlingSalmonella
- KM6-3667124-0 FENUGREEK, WHOLE (SPICE) Import division DNEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- KM6-3663178-0 SPICES AND SEASONING, GROUND, CRACKED, WITH SALT, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handlingpoisonous or deleterious substance
- J89-0147285-4 SPICES, GROUND, CRACKED, ETC., N.E.C. Import division DNBI. insanitary handlingSalmonella
- J89-0147026-2 PEPPER, BLACK, NATURAL EXTRACT OR FLAVOR (SPICE) Import division DNBI. Salmonella
- KM6-1631947-1 CAPSICUMS (CAYENNE CHILI, HOT PEPPERS), GROUND, CRACKED (SPICE) Import division DNEI. Salmonella
Data and downloads
Download all 35 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 2026-10-21. To get new ones for United Arab Emirates by email, watch United Arab Emirates.
United Arab Emirates country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →