FDA import alert
Import Alert 28-04
Detention Without Physical Examination of Black and White Pepper from Brazil
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Red-list entries
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Green-list entries
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Countries
2024-09-27
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What being on this list means
Firms on an import alert's Red List are subject to Detention Without Physical Examination (DWPE): FDA can detain their shipments at the border automatically, without sampling or inspecting them. The burden shifts to the importer to prove — typically with private laboratory analysis, shipment by shipment — that the goods are not violative. Removal from the list requires evidence that the underlying problem is resolved, usually including a track record of consecutive clean shipments and a petition to FDA. How removal works →
A Green List on a countrywide alert works the other way: it names the firms FDA has excluded from detention because they demonstrated compliance.
This alert publishes a Green List: 1 firms are excluded from detention under it. Countrywide product coverage applies to everyone else — check the official FDA page for scope.
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