India — Whole Grains, Milled Grain Products, and Starch — Grains-Starch-Other
India received 7 FDA import refusals in Grains-Starch-Other, part of Whole Grains, Milled Grain Products, and Starch between 2023-Q3 and 2026-Q2. Volume is roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, nutrition labeling, and filth. 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 grains-starch-other from India
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 7 refusals in the last 3 years, 7 were hazard findings and 0 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (4); DNEI — Northeast (3).
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (4), unsafe color additive (2), filth (1), Salmonella (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- nutrition labeling (3), color not declared (2), no adequate directions (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- 82S-0005138-9 SORGHUM (MILO), WHOLE GRAIN Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- EU9-8603084-6 SORGHUM (MILO), WHOLE GRAIN Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- MK8-6022735-6 MILLET, WHOLE GRAIN Import division DNBI. filth
- 9AJ-0862553-3 MILLED GRAIN PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. establishment not listedno adequate directionsforeign plant not registeredunapproved new drug+6 more
- 9AJ-0840810-4 MALT PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. color not declaredunsafe color additive
- PDR-0055889-6 SORGHUM (MILO), WHOLE GRAIN Import division DNBI. false or misleading labelnutrition labelingpesticide residuelabel not conspicuous
- 9AJ-0835829-1 MILLED GRAIN PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. nutrition labelinglabelingSalmonella
- KM6-3580999-9 MILLED GRAIN PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. ingredients not listednutrition labelingfilth
- 410-0310387-0 MILLED GRAIN PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
Data and downloads
Download all 9 entries (CSV) — every refusal behind this page, with its import division, FDA product code, charges and whether it was a hazard finding or paperwork.
The file holds entries up to 2026-06-25. To get new ones for India by email, watch India.
India country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →