The US FDA has in the past one year rejected more than 2100 batches of "made in India" products across food, personal care, medicines and health supplement categories, including those made by leading companies such as Hindustan Unilever, Britannia, Nestle India, Haldiram, Heinz India. The reasons for rejection vary from minor labelling issues to products manufactured in unhygienic conditions to pesticides being above permissible limits, according to data put out by the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) on its website. Most Indian companies say the items that have been rejected were shipped by unauthorized third-party importers.
