Yes, a phytosanitary certificate may be rejected for any of these reasons: 1) if it’s not readable 2) if it contains conflicting information 3) if it contains inconsistent information 4) if it contains prohibited products for instance some fraudulent exporter may include prohibited product after certification. If you smartly pass the exporting country, you’re most likely going not to be lucky at the importing country. Your product will be flagged and rejected by the importing country for violation. This act may put a country on the watchlist of the importing country 5) if the information is incomplete, the phytosanitary certificate will be rejected 6) if issuing agency from the exporting country doesn’t comply with the period of validity or it expired the phytosanitary certificate may be flagged as invalid if it contains deceptive alterations or erasures 7) if it contains wording that is inconsistent with the model. This is very important. The right words and terminology must be used. 8) if copies are not certified by the appropriate agency from the exporting country Going by the above information, a phytosanitary certificate may be flagged as fake if it isn’t issued by the NPPO or it contains unverifiable and misleading information. If this happens, it may put exporting countries on the watch list or be banned for repeated cases.