India — Beverage Bases

India received 14 FDA import refusals in Beverage Bases between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 3 in 2024-Q3, with the trend rising sharply year-on-year. The most-cited issues are unsafe color additive, nutrition labeling, and ingredients not listed. 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 beverage bases from India

Hazard or paperwork: Of 14 refusals in the last 3 years, 9 were hazard findings and 5 paperwork alone.
Where refusals happen: DNEI — Northeast (9); DSEI — Southeast (3); DWCI — West Coast (2).
Riskiest months: September, October, February, by refusals since 2020.
Test for before shipping: unsafe color additive (6), Salmonella (3).
Paperwork to get right: nutrition labeling (4), ingredients not listed (3), 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

hazard findings labelling & registration

Show the numbers

Quarter	Refusals	Hazard	Paperwork
2023-Q4	0	0	0
2024-Q1	0	0	0
2024-Q2	0	0	0
2024-Q3	3	1	2
2024-Q4	1	0	1
2025-Q1	0	0	0
2025-Q2	1	1	0
2025-Q3	1	1	0
2025-Q4	3	1	2
2026-Q1	3	3	0
2026-Q2	0	0	0
2026-Q3	2	2	0

Recent refusals

H77-0241555-2 2026-09-24 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additive
H77-0241785-5 2026-07-10 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additive
KM6-3668848-3 2026-02-20 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additive
KM6-3653210-3 2026-02-02 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additiveingredients not listed
AFJ-2905240-9 2026-01-07 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. Salmonella
KM6-3662585-7 2025-10-21 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unapproved new drug
316-2076664-7 2025-10-20 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unsafe color additive
KM6-3659936-7 2025-10-10 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. unapproved new drug
AFJ-2901638-8 2025-09-04 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. Salmonella
AFJ-2900561-3 2025-06-23 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DSEI. supplement labelingnutrition labelingSalmonella
KM6-3630593-0 2024-11-27 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. ingredients not listedno net quantitynutrition labeling
9AJ-0862516-0 2024-09-26 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. ingredients not listednutrition labeling
KM6-3626922-7 2024-09-03 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. no net quantityno common namenutrition labelingunsafe color additive
KM6-1618561-7 2024-08-02 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. FSVP violation
KM6-3598263-0 2023-06-15 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additive
KM6-3595877-0 2023-05-04 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. color not declared
F23-9279871-6 2022-07-21 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
9PM-2655645-8 2021-05-17 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. unsafe color additive
H67-1590613-6 2020-11-30 BEVERAGE BASE OF NON-FRUIT ORIGIN, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additivenutrition labelingingredients not listedno manufacturer name+2 more
KM6-3536413-6 2020-03-26 BEVERAGE BASE NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additive

Data and downloads

Download all 20 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 2026-09-24. To get new ones for India by email, watch India.

India country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →