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According to the Indian Express recently reported that in the past four years, food products from India have faced high rejection rates when exported to the United States due to hygiene issues.

Data from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) show that between October 2019 and September 2023, food from Mexico, India and other countries were rejected by US customs in the top number, with Mexico ranking first at 5,374 batches, followed by India at 3,925 batches.

However, in terms of rejection rate (rejected food as a percentage of all food exported to a given country), India is six times higher than Mexico (0.025%), at 0.15%.

Of the 3,925 shipments of food from India that were rejected by U.S. customs, 953 shipments (24 percent) were rejected for being “unclean” and 786 shipments (20 percent) were rejected for containing salmonella, FDA data showed. The most common product categories rejected were spices, vitamins, minerals and proteins, bakery products and seafood products.

The Indian Express cited Nestle India as an example, saying that 110 of the 2,965 food shipments the company exported to the United States were denied entry, a rejection rate of 3.7 percent, with most of the rejected goods being noodles and related products.

The most common complaint against Nestle’s rejected goods is that the product “contains, in whole or in part, a dirty, rotten or decomposing substance, or is unfit for consumption”. Other common allegations relate to mislabeling of nutrition and ingredient information.

The number of rejections of Indian food exports has been on a downward trend over the past 10 years, from a peak of 1,591 rejections in 2015 to 1,033 in 2023.

However, according to the Indian Express, a study published by the US Department of Agriculture in 2022 has revived concerns: Between 2002 and 2019, food from India had the highest number of pathogen violations detected, with 5,115 of the more than 22,000 pathogen and toxin violations identified being related to Indian food imports and denied entry by customs, accounting for 22.9 percent. Mexico came in second with 13.9 percent. The main cause of these violations was salmonella contamination, the study said.