India — Bakery Products, Doughs, Bakery Mixes, and Icings
India received 180 FDA import refusals in Bakery Products, Doughs, Bakery Mixes, and Icings between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 29 in 2025-Q3, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are filth, unsafe color additive, and color not declared. 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 bakery products, doughs, bakery mixes, and icings from India
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 191 refusals in the last 3 years, 178 were hazard findings and 13 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (71); DSEI — Southeast (46); DWCI — West Coast (34).
- Riskiest months
- October, January, December, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (138), unsafe color additive (25), insanitary handling (12), insanitary plant (11), Salmonella (8).
- Paperwork to get right
- color not declared (20), nutrition labeling (16), ingredients not listed (15).
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 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 15 | 12 | 3 |
| 2024-Q4 | 17 | 16 | 1 |
| 2025-Q1 | 19 | 17 | 2 |
| 2025-Q2 | 15 | 13 | 2 |
| 2025-Q3 | 29 | 26 | 3 |
| 2025-Q4 | 26 | 25 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 27 | 27 | 0 |
| 2026-Q2 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026-Q4 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bakery | 191 | 1,105 t | 280.2 | filth |
| All products with import tonnes on record | 191 | 1,105 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
- H67-1724012-0 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- DP4-1096431-7 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- KM6-3686224-5 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- RTW-0045096-4 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- KM6-3688178-1 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. filth
- SCS-1120239-5 PAPAD Import division DSEI. filth
- EJ4-0061831-3 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- B4S-1015560-2 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. filth
- SCS-2989532-1 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. filth
- KM6-3684422-7 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- MQ9-0213297-5 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. filth
- KM6-3678694-9 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filthunsafe color additiveingredients not listedno net quantity+4 more
- B4S-1014531-4 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- 8P5-0090281-9 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. ingredients not listedno common nameundeclared allergenlabeling+3 more
- KM6-3675124-0 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. filth
- RTW-0040803-8 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- B4S-1014638-7 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. filth
- KM6-3677132-1 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. filth
- 235-2352647-5 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. filth
- B4S-1014323-6 OTHER BAKERY PRODUCTS, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. filth
Data and downloads
Download all 358 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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