United States — Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans
United States received 51 FDA import refusals in Vitamins, Minerals, Proteins, and Unconventional Dietary Specialties for Humans between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 11 in 2025-Q1, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unapproved new drug, nutrition labeling, and no manufacturer name. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from United States, 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 States
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 53 refusals in the last 3 years, 3 were hazard findings and 50 paperwork alone — most were avoidable at the desk.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (32); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (18); DNEI — Northeast (1).
- Riskiest months
- August, January, May, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (2), new dietary ingredient (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- unapproved new drug (24), nutrition labeling (15), not in English (10).
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 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024-Q2 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2024-Q3 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2025-Q2 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2025-Q3 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-Q3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supplements | 45 | — | — | unapproved new drug |
| Herbals-Botanicals | 8 | — | — | 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-9680569-0 L-CYSTEINE (PROTEIN) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-9704192-3 IRON (MINERAL) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 1FX-6962668-7 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 9DH-0081162-5 MULTIPLE VITAMINS (MVI-12 VITAMIN COMBO) (VITAMIN) Import division DNBI. false or misleading labelnutrition labeling
- BPQ-9502365-6 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSWI. nutrition labeling
- 98F-0121461-6 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. supplement labelingnutrition labeling
- SCS-5145795-5 MULTIPLE VITAMINS (MVI-12 VITAMIN COMBO) (VITAMIN) Import division DWCI. ingredients not listedno manufacturer namenot in Englishdietary ingredient labeling
- SCS-6168871-5 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. new dietary ingredient
- 799-3745659-1 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. not in Englishnutrition labeling
- AEK-9173761-7 MECOBALAMIN (VITAMIN) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- SCS-6583010-5 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. below standard of quality
- AEK-7510038-6 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 799-0971253-3 CALCIUM (MINERAL) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- AEK-7417051-3 VITAMIN, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. no manufacturer namenutrition labeling
- SCS-2356717-0 SENNA (HERBAL & BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS) Import division DSEI. nutrition labeling
- SCS-1850967-4 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. nutrition labelingunapproved new drug
- 300-1823170-5 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. nutrition labelingunapproved new drug
- AEK-8449387-1 GLUCOSAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE (HERBAL AND BOTANICALS, NOT TEAS II) Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
- 551-2191400-3 HERBALS & BOTANICALS (NOT TEAS), N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- SCS-9826155-9 VITAMIN, MINERAL, PROTEINS AND UNCONVENTIONAL DIETARY SPECIALITIES FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. unapproved new drug
Data and downloads
Download all 100 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 States country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →