India — Vegetables and Vegetable Products
India received 218 FDA import refusals in Vegetables and Vegetable Products between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 39 in 2025-Q3, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are pesticide residue, poisonous or deleterious substance, and no food-canning registration. 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 vegetables and vegetable products from India
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 221 refusals in the last 3 years, 206 were hazard findings and 15 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (68); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (59); DWCI — West Coast (55).
- Riskiest months
- April, March, July, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- pesticide residue (150), Salmonella (24), insanitary handling (22), insanitary plant (21), poisonous or deleterious substance (16).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (10), no food-canning registration (7), nutrition labeling (7).
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 | 20 | 19 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 13 | 12 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 11 | 10 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 12 | 11 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 29 | 29 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 34 | 33 | 1 |
| 2025-Q3 | 39 | 31 | 8 |
| 2025-Q4 | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 23 | 23 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 16 | 15 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegetables-Other | 196 | 91 t | 7,115 | pesticide residue |
| Leafy | 19 | 3,622 t | 74.2 | pesticide residue |
| Pepper | 6 | 16,906 t | 14.6 | pesticide residue |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 221 | 851 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
- 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
- BTF-4055734-6 PEPPER, HOT, DRIED OR PASTE Import division DWCI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 268 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 →