India — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Pepper
India received 6 FDA import refusals in Pepper, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2023-Q3 and 2026-Q2. Volume peaked at 3 in 2025-Q2, with the trend roughly flat year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, no food-canning registration, and no process filing. Measured against US import value, that runs at 14.6 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 pepper from India
Lower risk. India ranks 5th of 5 origins shipping pepper to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 14.6 — the lowest of them.
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- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 6 refusals in the last 3 years, 5 were hazard findings and 1 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 16,906 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the 4th highest refusal rate of 5 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DWCI — West Coast (5); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (1).
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (4), filth (1), Salmonella (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no food-canning registration (1), no process filing (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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- BTF-4055734-6 PEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. filth
- RTW-0035069-3 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DNBI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- K80-5148388-2 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- K80-5148436-9 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DWCI. pesticide residueSalmonella
- KM6-3645484-5 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- KM6-3644115-6 PEPPER, HOT, N.E.C. (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- U52-8740501-8 PEPPER, SWEET (FRUIT USED AS VEGETABLE) Import division DSEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
Data and downloads
Download all 7 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 2026-06-09. To get new ones for India by email, watch India.
India country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →