FDA import refusal: Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA) (Vietnam)
FDA refuses ONABOTULINUMTOXINA from Vietnam; verify your suppliers.
What changed & why it matters
MedSpaRadar recorded an FDA import refusal at the federal level, dated September 16, 2026, in the Aesthetic Injectables category, naming ONABOTULINUMTOXINA.
An import refusal marks a shipment of ONABOTULINUMTOXINA the FDA stopped at the U.S. border as violative — the gray-market corridor a med spa must never source injectables from. Foreign, unapproved, or misbranded product refused at import is exactly what surfaces when a practice buys outside verified US-licensed 503A/503B or FDA-registered channels.
- Type
- FDA Import Refusal
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Category
- Aesthetic Injectables
- Substance
- ONABOTULINUMTOXINA
- Recorded
- September 16, 2026
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The FDA record
- Firm
- COMEM NATURAL JSC
- Origin
- Ha Noi, Vietnam
- Product
- Onabotulinumtoxina
- FDA classification
- Human and Animal Therapeutic Biologic and Biosimilar Drugs
- Refused
- Sep 16, 2026
- FDA district
- Division of Southeast Imports
- Firm FEI
- 3044410908
- FDA shipment ID
- 1FX-2060356-0/20002/1A
Why FDA refused it
FDA does not publish plain-language definitions for this shipment’s charge codes (a drugs and biologic refusal) — the firm, product, and origin above carry the meaning.
FDA charge codes on this record: 9999978 (no public definition) · 9999979 (no public definition) · 9999982 (no public definition).
Verify at FDA
FDA doesn’t publish a page per refusal. Open the FDA Import Refusals database and search by shipment ID 1FX-2060356-0/20002/1A (or firm FEI 3044410908), refused Sep 16, 2026.
FDA Import Refusal · FDA Import Refusals database ↗FDA record · COMEM NATURAL JSC · Ha Noi · drug product · refused entry by FDA
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