US Food Import Hazards

What keeps food out of the United States: FDA import refusals grouped by hazard. Each page tracks one hazard across all origins and product categories — yearly trend, the origins cited most often, and the most recent refusal entries citing it.

Each group below is made of FDA charge codes, the short labels printed on a refusal notice. Every charge code, explained.

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Hazard findings

Hazard	Refusals	Most-cited origin
Unsafe additives	4,457	Mexico
Filth and insanitary conditions	6,686	India
Salmonella	2,395	India
Listeria monocytogenes	477	China
Other pathogens	33	Philippines
Pesticide residues	3,912	Mexico
Veterinary drug residues	448	China
Mycotoxins	96	El Salvador
Contaminants	1,846	China
Histamine	151	Senegal
Undeclared allergens	520	India

Labelling and registration failures

These are not hazard findings. The charge is a labelling, registration or filing failure, with nothing found wrong with the product itself — more than a quarter of US food refusals. They are counted separately here, and on the dashboard, because a league table that mixes them is not comparable with anything.

Reason	Refusals	Most-cited origin
Labelling	7,617	Mexico
Process and registration	4,447	India

All hazard categories in FDA import refusals

Every hazard category this site tags, ranked by the number of refusals citing it. The tracked hazards above are the agent-level groups readers ask about most; the categories below show the full landscape.

#	Hazard category	Refusals
1	Labelling	7,617
2	Filth and insanitary conditions	6,686
3	Unsafe additives	4,457
4	Process and registration	4,447
5	Pesticide residues	3,912
6	Salmonella	2,395
7	Contaminants	1,846
8	Undeclared allergens	520
9	Listeria monocytogenes	477
10	Veterinary drug residues	448
11	Other	207
12	Histamine	151
13	Mycotoxins	96
14	Unlisted	34
15	Other pathogens	33