India — Multiple Food Dinners, Gravies, Sauces, and Specialties (Total Diet) — Sauces-Prepared
India received 76 FDA import refusals in Sauces-Prepared, part of Multiple Food Dinners, Gravies, Sauces, and Specialties (Total Diet) between 2024-Q1 and 2026-Q4. Volume peaked at 20 in 2025-Q1, with the trend falling 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 sauces-prepared from India
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 78 refusals in the last 3 years, 68 were hazard findings and 10 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (34); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (22); DWCI — West Coast (10).
- Riskiest months
- March, September, February, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- filth (23), Salmonella (17), unsafe food additive (13), unsafe color additive (8), undeclared allergen (5).
- Paperwork to get right
- ingredients not listed (16), nutrition labeling (16), no net quantity (10).
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 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-Q3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 20 | 19 | 1 |
| 2025-Q2 | 10 | 8 | 2 |
| 2025-Q3 | 10 | 8 | 2 |
| 2025-Q4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-Q1 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 13 | 11 | 2 |
| 2026-Q4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
Recent refusals
- J89-0148276-2 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- T77-1669547-5 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. pesticide residue
- KM6-3686478-7 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filthno food-canning registrationno process filing
- J89-0148300-0 SOY SAUCE Import division DNBI. filth
- KM6-3687741-7 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. no process filing
- J89-0148388-5 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- J89-0148454-5 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- J89-0148414-9 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- J89-0148207-7 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- KM6-3677873-0 CHILI SAUCE Import division DNEI. filth
- DP4-1069528-3 CHILI SAUCE Import division DNBI. ingredients not listedlabelingno food-canning registrationno process filing+4 more
- KM6-3681180-4 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filthno food-canning registrationno process filing
- KM6-3677854-0 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- 9PM-2686917-4 SOY SAUCE Import division DNBI. filth
- KM6-3674671-1 CHILI SAUCE Import division DNBI. filth
- J89-0148286-1 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- KM6-3680735-6 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. no food-canning registrationno process filing
- KM6-3677585-0 SAUCES, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. filth
- K80-2175913-0 SOY SAUCE Import division DWCI. filth
- K80-5154936-9 MULTIPLE FOOD SPECIALITIES, SIDE DISHES AND DESSERTS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. Salmonella
Data and downloads
Download all 86 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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India country report since 2020 — every refusal by year, charge and import division →