referencesource/fda-import-alert-red-list

FDA import alert red lists: firms subject to detention without physical examination

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• Last verified: 2026-08-06
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• Records: 424

Which foreign manufacturers, shippers and growers are on an FDA import alert red list, meaning every shipment from them is detained without physical examination (DWPE) at the US border. Each record is one firm on one import alert, with the firm name and address as FDA prints it, the country, the date FDA published the listing, and the product codes and product descriptions it covers. Answers 'is my supplier on an FDA import alert', 'is [firm] on the red list for import alert 66-41', 'why was my shipment detained without examination', 'which firms are on the FDA red list for undeclared pharmaceutical ingredients in supplements', and 'how do I check a Chinese manufacturer before ordering'. FDA publishes 153 separate import alerts as individual current-state pages with no cross-alert firm index, so answering 'is this firm flagged anywhere' means opening 153 pages; and firms are removed from red lists on petition with no record of the removal published at all, so an assistant answering from memory names firms that were delisted years ago.

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Licence position

Facts extracted from FDA's freely published import alert pages on accessdata.fda.gov. US government work; firm names, addresses, product codes, publication dates and FDA's stated reasons are facts and not copyrightable. Each record links back to the import alert page it was read from. Note the disclaimer FDA prints on every alert and which every record page should carry: 'This import alert represents the Agency's current guidance to FDA field personnel regarding the manufacturer(s) and/or products(s) at issue. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person, and does not operate to bind FDA or the public.'

Facts are not copyrightable; what this dataset takes from each source is a fact plus a short attributed quote linking back to the page that states it.

Sources

• https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_197.html
• https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_1141.html
• https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_1147.html
• https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_136.html
• https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_1140.html
• https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_1133.html

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