United Kingdom — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans
United Kingdom received 75 FDA import refusals in Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 17 in 2026-Q1, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are supplement GMP failure, unapproved new drug, and supplement labeling. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from United Kingdom, 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 United Kingdom
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 75 refusals in the last 3 years, 4 were hazard findings and 71 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (61); DNEI — Northeast (7); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (5).
- Riskiest months
- August, October, February, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (1), new dietary ingredient (1), poisonous substance (1), unsafe color additive (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- unapproved new drug (31), supplement GMP failure (22), nutrition labeling (17).
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 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2024-Q1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024-Q2 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024-Q3 | 16 | 1 | 15 |
| 2024-Q4 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025-Q1 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2025-Q2 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025-Q4 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-Q1 | 17 | 0 | 17 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-Q3 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supplements | 66 | — | — | unapproved new drug |
| Herbals-Botanicals | 9 | — | — | unapproved new drug |
"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-0929799-4 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- SCS-0579957-0 VITAMIN E (TOCOPHEROL) Import division DNEI. no manufacturer name
- 9XP-0044546-9 BIOFLAVANOIDS (VIT/MIN?PROTEIN/UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPEC FOR HUMAN/ANIMAL, N.E.C.) Import division DSWI. supplement GMP failure
- AEK-0817631-4 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement labelingdietary ingredient labeling
- AEK-0667822-0 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 1FX-2297595-7 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. new dietary ingredient
- SCS-3089691-1 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unsafe color additive
- J21-0116965-9 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. supplement labelingfalse or misleading labelno contact informationnutrition labeling+8 more
- SCS-7639672-6 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement labelingno contact informationnutrition labeling
- 799-2212081-4 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- 799-2408242-6 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- 799-2397482-1 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- 799-2406591-8 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- 799-2408343-2 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- 799-2408569-2 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- 799-2406854-0 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- 799-2408462-0 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- 799-2406778-1 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- 799-2406447-3 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
- 799-2374175-8 VITAMIN, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement GMP failure
Data and downloads
Download all 139 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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United Kingdom country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →