India — Vegetable Oils (Includes Olive Oil)
India received 48 FDA import refusals in Vegetable Oils (Includes Olive Oil) between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 7 in 2024-Q4, with the trend falling sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unsafe food additive, unapproved new drug, and no net quantity. 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 vegetable oils (includes olive oil) from India
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 46 refusals in the last 3 years, 43 were hazard findings and 3 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (25); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (8); DWCI — West Coast (7).
- Riskiest months
- October, November, July, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- unsafe food additive (34), pesticide residue (8), filth (2), Salmonella (2), undeclared allergen (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- nutrition labeling (5), unapproved new drug (5), no net quantity (4).
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-Q4 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2024-Q1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024-Q4 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- 442-6877809-7 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DNBI. unsafe food additiveunapproved new drug
- KM6-3668164-5 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DSEI. unsafe food additive
- 235-2351916-5 PEANUT OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT Import division DWCI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- KM6-3669941-5 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DSEI. unsafe food additive
- 235-2351848-0 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DWCI. unsafe food additive
- KM6-3649468-4 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DNEI. unsafe food additive
- J89-0146911-6 MUSTARD OIL, CRUDE, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DNBI. unsafe food additive
- 799-3299726-7 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DSEI. unsafe food additive
- 235-2351523-9 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DWCI. unsafe food additive
- NMB-0000902-2 MUSTARD OIL, CRUDE, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DNEI. unsafe food additive
- KM6-3655493-3 REFINED VEGETABLE OIL, SINGLE INGREDIENT, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declaredno net quantitynutrition labeling+2 more
- KM6-3658380-9 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DNEI. unsafe food additive
- 82S-0004739-5 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DNBI. unsafe food additive
- 8Y6-0007010-1 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DNEI. unsafe food additive
- E5G-0236490-6 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DNBI. unsafe food additivelabel not conspicuousno net quantitynutrition labeling+2 more
- 9GX-0256152-9 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DNEI. unsafe food additive
- KM6-3650378-1 SESAME OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- 9GX-0255764-2 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DNEI. filthSalmonellaunsafe food additive
- KM6-3650537-2 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DNEI. unsafe food additive
- 82S-0004628-0 MUSTARD OIL, REFINED, SINGLE INGREDIENT, SEE 28O FOR MUSTARD OIL AS A FLAVORING Import division DSEI. unsafe food additive
Data and downloads
Download all 79 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 2026-09-02. To get new ones for India by email, watch India.
India country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →