India — Fruit and Fruit Products
India received 275 FDA import refusals in Fruit and Fruit Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 52 in 2026-Q3, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, poisonous substance, and Salmonella. 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 fruit and fruit products from India
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 283 refusals in the last 3 years, 269 were hazard findings and 14 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DSEI — Southeast (112); DNEI — Northeast (83); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (33).
- Riskiest months
- March, July, May, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (212), pesticide residue (33), poisonous substance (8), Salmonella (8), poisonous or deleterious substance (7).
- Paperwork to get right
- nutrition labeling (10), ingredients not listed (6), no food-canning registration (6).
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 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 14 | 13 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 13 | 12 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 10 | 9 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 22 | 22 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 23 | 20 | 3 |
| 2025-Q3 | 33 | 32 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 38 | 37 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 36 | 33 | 3 |
| 2026-Q2 | 18 | 18 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 52 | 52 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropical | 32 | 399 t | 332.1 | pesticide residue |
| Fruit-Other | 244 | — | — | filth |
| Citrus | 4 | — | — | substitution |
| Stone-Fruit | 2 | — | — | pesticide residue |
| Berries-Grapes | 1 | — | — | filth |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 32 | 399 t |
"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
- GLD-0112310-2 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- BHQ-0026600-0 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT PUREES) Import division DNEI. filth
- SCS-5910783-7 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSEI. filth
- AEK-2256318-2 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. filth
- AEK-2170458-9 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-3684693-3 TAMARIND, JAM, JELLY, PRESERVES, MARMALADE, BUTTER OR CANDIED Import division DNBI. Salmonellafilth
- KM6-3671096-4 DATES, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. filth
- AEK-2025188-9 PALM NUT ARECA, ARECA NUT OR BETEL NUT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DSEI. unsafe food additive
- SCS-3832800-9 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL/TROPICAL FRUIT PULP) Import division DSEI. filth
- SCS-6273767-9 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DWCI. filth
- AEK-2044176-1 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- 1FX-4275981-2 PALM NUT ARECA, ARECA NUT OR BETEL NUT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT, TOPPINGS OR SYRUPS Import division DSEI. poisonous substance
- SCS-1904057-3 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- AEK-2012312-0 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. filth
- SCS-1064670-9 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT PUREES) Import division DSEI. filth
- KM6-3687245-9 TAMARIND (SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT) Import division DSWI. filth
- B4S-1015641-0 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNEI. filth
- 1FX-3974927-1 PALM NUT ARECA, ARECA NUT OR BETEL NUT, SUBTROPICAL AND TROPICAL FRUIT Import division DSEI. poisonous or deleterious substancepoisonous substance
- SCS-7522631-4 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
- SCS-2753239-7 TAMARIND, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DSEI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 453 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 2026-10-21. To get new ones for India by email, watch India.
India country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →