India — Snack Food Items (Flour, Meal, or Vegetable Base)
India received 217 FDA import refusals in Snack Food Items (Flour, Meal, or Vegetable Base) between 2023-Q4 and 2026-Q3. Volume peaked at 44 in 2024-Q4, with the trend falling year-on-year. The most-cited issues are Salmonella, insanitary plant, and insanitary handling. 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 snack food items (flour, meal, or vegetable base) from India
- Hazard or paperwork
- Of 214 refusals in the last 3 years, 205 were hazard findings and 9 paperwork alone.
- Where refusals happen
- DNEI — Northeast (83); DWCI — West Coast (66); DNBI — North Border, the Canadian land border (27).
- Riskiest months
- November, January, October, by refusals since 2020.
- Test for before shipping
- Salmonella (104), insanitary handling (89), insanitary plant (85), filth (11), unsafe color additive (10).
- Paperwork to get right
- ingredients not listed (12), nutrition labeling (10), color not declared (9).
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 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q1 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-Q2 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 2024-Q3 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| 2024-Q4 | 44 | 44 | 0 |
| 2025-Q1 | 28 | 28 | 0 |
| 2025-Q2 | 25 | 23 | 2 |
| 2025-Q3 | 31 | 27 | 4 |
| 2025-Q4 | 25 | 24 | 1 |
| 2026-Q1 | 22 | 21 | 1 |
| 2026-Q2 | 14 | 14 | 0 |
| 2026-Q3 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
By commodity, last 156 weeks
| Commodity | Refusals | 1 refusal per | Per $1B US imports | Most-cited hazard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snacks | 214 | — | — | Salmonella |
"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
- KM6-3681967-4 SNACK FOODS NOT ELSEWHERE MENTIONED, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. color not declared
- 9AJ-0014527-9 RICE STARCH SNACKS, BAKED Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- 8RG-2688159-5 BREAD SNACKS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- 9YL-0083757-6 VEGETABLE SNACKS (OTHER THAN PULSES), N.E.C., BAKED Import division DNBI. filth
- KM6-1643067-4 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- 8P5-0092304-7 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- H67-1720286-4 SNACK FOODS NOT ELSEWHERE MENTIONED, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. poisonous or deleterious substanceinsanitary plantinsanitary handling
- KM6-3678103-1 POTATO CHIPS,FRIED Import division DSWI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- KM6-3679774-8 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handling
- KM6-3678296-3 SNACK FOODS NOT ELSEWHERE MENTIONED, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. refused establishment inspection
- KM6-3676975-4 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handlingingredients not listedno net quantity+2 more
- KM6-3677541-3 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. insanitary plantinsanitary handlingSalmonella
- H67-1714960-2 SNACK FOODS NOT ELSEWHERE MENTIONED, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. unsafe color additivecolor not declared
- EJ4-0059731-9 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. Salmonellainsanitary plantinsanitary handling
- DP4-1026692-9 MIXED STARCH SNACKS, FRIED/OIL COOK Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- J89-0147603-8 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DNBI. filth
- EJ4-0058725-2 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DWCI. Salmonella
- KM6-3664312-4 SNACK FOODS NOT ELSEWHERE MENTIONED, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. Salmonella
- DP4-1012247-8 SNACK FOODS NOT ELSEWHERE MENTIONED, N.E.C. Import division DSWI. Salmonella
- KM6-3670435-5 FRIED SNACK FOODS, N.E.C. Import division DNEI. Salmonella
Data and downloads
Download all 273 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 →