India — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Leafy
India received 20 FDA import refusals in Leafy, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2022-Q3 and 2025-Q2. Volume peaked at 11 in 2024-Q1, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, poisonous or deleterious substance, and lead. Measured against US import value, that runs at 74.2 refusals per $1 billion of imports of this commodity from India over the last 3 years.
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Key figures
If you import leafy from India
Above the median. India ranks 2nd of 4 origins shipping leafy to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 74.2 — above 67% of them.
least riskmost risk
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 19 refusals in the last 3 years, 19 were hazard findings and 0 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 3,622 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the highest refusal rate of 3 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (7); DNEI — Northeast (5); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (4).
- Riskiest months
- February, March, January, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (19), poisonous or deleterious substance (2), lead (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- DP4-3894845-8 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residuepoisonous or deleterious substance
- 8KP-0057861-8 SPINACH, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- DP4-3882240-6 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residuepoisonous or deleterious substance
- 8KP-0045031-3 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- KM6-3620214-5 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residuelead
- 8KP-0045707-8 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- 8KP-0045467-9 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- 8KP-0048218-3 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 8KP-0048305-8 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- 8KP-0047712-6 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 8KP-0045073-5 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 8KP-0047080-8 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 8KP-0046968-5 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
- 8KP-0046893-5 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- 8KP-0046906-5 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 8KP-0046941-2 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 8KP-0046294-6 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- 8KP-0045196-4 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 8KP-0043664-3 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- KM6-3594179-2 SPINACH (LEAF & STEM VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. pesticide residue
Data and downloads
Download all 21 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 2025-05-21. To get new ones for India by email, watch India.
India country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →