India — Vegetables and Vegetable Products — Vegetables-Other
India received 194 FDA import refusals in Vegetables-Other, part of Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 37 in 2025-Q3, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, poisonous or deleterious substance, and no food-canning registration. Measured against US import value, that runs at 7,115 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 vegetables-other from India
Higher risk. India ranks 2nd of 24 origins shipping vegetables-other to the US on refusals per $1 billion of US imports, at 7,115 — above 96% of them.
least riskmost risk
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 196 refusals in the last 3 years, 182 were hazard findings and 14 paperwork alone.
- Refusals against import volume
- On average, 1 refusal per 91 tonnes imported into the US over the last 3 years; the highest refusal rate of 17 origins with enough import volume on record to rate (US import quantities 2022–2024, FAOSTAT).
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (63); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (51); DWCI — West Coast (50).
- Riskiest months
- April, July, September, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (127), Salmonella (23), insanitary handling (22), insanitary plant (21), poisonous or deleterious substance (14).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (9), nutrition labeling (7), FSVP violation (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 | 9 | 8 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 11 | 10 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 10 | 9 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 11 | 10 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 27 | 27 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 30 | 29 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 37 | 30 | 7 |
| 2025-Q4 | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 23 | 23 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 16 | 15 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- MQ9-0213174-6 MIXED VEGETABLES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- 8N5-0028250-5 LENTILS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- CIU-5316512-6 MUNG BEAN, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- WRT-1818683-5 LENTILS Import division DNBI. pesticide residuenutrition labeling
- BQT-2601590-7 CHANA DAL, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- KM6-3681261-2 MIXED VEGETABLES, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substanceno food-canning registrationno process filing
- KM6-1651805-6 MIXED VEGETABLES, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- T77-1669447-8 VEGETABLE & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- AEK-9744514-0 TZAHP CHOY (CHINESE CANNED SWEET PICKLES MADE FROM MIXED VEGETABLES), WITH SAUCE Import division DSEI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- CIU-5311638-4 LENTILS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- KM6-3670479-3 CHANA DAL, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. insanitary plant
- KM6-1651564-9 PIGEON PEAS, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
- KM6-3678380-5 TZAHP CHOY (CHINESE CANNED SWEET PICKLES MADE FROM MIXED VEGETABLES), WITH SAUCE Import division DNEI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- T77-1663472-2 VEGETABLE & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. pesticide residue
- T77-1663075-3 VEGETABLE & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- T77-1664133-9 VEGETABLE & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- K80-5153646-5 BEAN, CORN, PEA, DRIED OR PASTE, N.E.C. (VEGETABLE) Import division DWCI. pesticide residue
- 8RG-2688839-2 TZAHP CHOY (CHINESE CANNED SWEET PICKLES MADE FROM MIXED VEGETABLES) (MIXED VEGETABLES) Import division DNBI. unsafe food additivenutrition labelingno process filingno acidified-food filing+2 more
- KM6-3678372-2 TZAHP CHOY (CHINESE CANNED SWEET PICKLES MADE FROM MIXED VEGETABLES), WITH SAUCE Import division DSWI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- KM6-3676731-1 CHANA DAL Import division DNBI. pesticide residue
Data and downloads
Download all 240 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 →