India — Fishery/Seafood Products
India received 90 FDA import refusals in Fishery/Seafood Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 15 in 2025-Q2, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, Salmonella, and nitrofuran. No trade baseline is published for this commodity from India, so no per-$1B rate is shown here.
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Key figures
If you import fishery/seafood products from India
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 97 refusals in the last 3 years, 95 were hazard findings and 2 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (33); DWCI — West Coast (33); DSEI — Southeast (15).
- Riskiest months
- November, April, February, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (34), veterinary drug residue (34), Salmonella (30), nitrofuran (28), poisonous chlorinated compound (6).
- Paperwork to get right
- no manufacturer name (2), false or misleading label (1), labeling (1).
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 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 15 | 14 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026-Q3 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shrimp-Prawn | 84 | — | — | veterinary drug residue |
| Fish-Other | 12 | — | — | Salmonella |
| Tuna | 1 | — | — | filth |
| Squid-Octopus | 0 | — | — | — |
"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
- 8TH-0052161-5 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DSWI. insanitary conditions
- KM6-3682195-1 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DSWI. filthSalmonella
- 224-1502939-0 SHRIMP & PRAWNS Import division DSWI. filthSalmonella
- 417-0412883-8 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DSEI. nitrofuran
- KM6-1644812-2 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DNEI. bulking agent addedlabeling
- T77-1661598-6 KINGFISH (ONLY MENTICIRRHUS SPP) Import division DWCI. false or misleading label
- 417-0409165-5 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DSWI. nitrofuran
- KM6-3671063-4 FISH, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- 8P5-0089831-4 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DNEI. filth
- 417-0406370-4 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DNEI. veterinary drug residue
- DP4-3989783-7 TUNA (ALBACORE, YELLOWFIN, BLUEFIN, SKIPJACK, ETC.) Import division DWCI. filth
- 082-0470327-9 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DSEI. veterinary drug residue
- 406-0611911-9 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DSEI. veterinary drug residuenitrofuranpoisonous chlorinated compound
- 8P5-0090153-0 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DNEI. filthSalmonella
- 082-0468944-5 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- 406-0617316-5 SNAPPER (RED, GRAY, MALABAR, ETC.) Import division DSEI. filth
- 406-0617179-7 SNAPPER (RED, GRAY, MALABAR, ETC.) Import division DNEI. filth
- 8TH-0040612-2 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DWCI. veterinary drug residuenitrofuran
- 082-0463998-6 SHRIMP AND PRAWNS, AQUACULTURE HARVESTED FISHERY/SEAFOOD PRODUCTS Import division DNEI. veterinary drug residuenitrofuran
- 826-0248527-6 MAHI MAHI Import division DSEI. Salmonella
Data and downloads
Download all 291 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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India country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →