India accounted for more than one-fifth of pathogen-based refusals of U.S. food imports from 2002 to 2019
- by Jae-Wan Ahn
- 2/7/2022
![Line chart showing the number of U.S. food import refusals from India, Mexico, Indonesia and France from 2002 to 2019.](https://ers.usda.gov/sites/default/files/_laserfiche/Charts/103098/221130_Food-Imports.png)
A study of U.S. Food and Drug Administration data on U.S. imported foods found that more than 22,000 pathogen and toxin violations were identified from 110,000 countries during 2002−19. India and Mexico had the most pathogen-related violations during the study period.