India — Dressings and Condiments
India received 28 FDA import refusals in Dressings and Condiments between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 6 in 2026-Q1, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, no process filing, 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 dressings and condiments from India
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 28 refusals in the last 3 years, 20 were hazard findings and 8 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (8); DWCI — West Coast (7); DSWI — Southwest, the Mexican land border (6).
- Riskiest months
- February, January, July, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (17), unsafe color additive (2), undeclared allergen (1), poisonous or deleterious substance (1).
- Paperwork to get right
- no process filing (7), no food-canning registration (4), no net quantity (2).
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 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-Q3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2026-Q4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Recent refusals
- B4S-1015932-3 RELISH, FRUIT BASED RELISH Import division DSWI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- 8KP-0079102-1 CHUTNEY Import division DNBI. filth
- KM6-3682688-5 CHUTNEY Import division DNBI. filth
- KM6-3672249-8 CATSUP Import division DSEI. filth
- KM6-3680992-3 MUSTARD, PREPARED Import division DSWI. sulfites not declared
- KM6-3673628-2 CHUTNEY Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-1636815-5 CONDIMENTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. poisonous or deleterious substance
- KM6-3669940-7 CHUTNEY Import division DSEI. filth
- KM6-3673610-0 VINEGAR, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-3661471-1 CHUTNEY Import division DSWI. filth
- KM6-3665820-5 CHUTNEY Import division DNEI. filth
- K80-5151873-7 CHUTNEY Import division DWCI. filth
- 82S-0004892-2 CONDIMENTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- KM6-3667047-3 CHUTNEY Import division DNEI. filth
- B4S-1012963-1 CONDIMENTS, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. filth
- KM6-3653814-2 CATSUP Import division DNEI. FSVP violation
- K80-5143683-1 CHUTNEY Import division DWCI. filth
- 9L7-1197557-8 CHUTNEY Import division DNBI. filthunsafe color additiveingredients not listed
- 235-2350109-8 RELISH, FRUIT BASED RELISH Import division DWCI. no process filing
- K80-2161004-4 CHUTNEY Import division DWCI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 41 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 2026-10-07. To get new ones for India by email, watch India.
India country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →