Failing Food Report – April 2017

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Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, April 2017

This report details food that was found to fail under the Imported Food Inspection Scheme during the month. For full data on activity and compliance under the Scheme refer to the six monthly Imported Food Inspection Data reports.

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Risk/Advisory food tests (targeted monitoring of food for compliance to safety standards)

The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (the department) targets and monitors food determined to pose a high or medium risk to public health. Risk food is targeted at the rate of 100 per cent until a history of food safety compliance is established. When an emerging human health and safety hazard is identified in food, the department may temporarily increase monitoring and testing. This is referred to as advisory food.

The following table details where noncompliant food was detected. Advisory food is marked with an asterisk in the table.

The noncompliant food was not distributed for sale in Australia. It was destroyed by the importer or re-exported to the country of origin under department supervision. Where a product is found to be noncompliant because the label does not have the mandatory allergen declaration, the product must be destroyed, re-exported or re-labelled to include the mandatory declaration. Future consignments continue to be targeted at 100 per cent until a history of compliance is established. More information on risk food and the tests applied under the IFIS can be found on the Tests applied to risk food webpages.

Microbiological / Allergen tests

Date of fail	Product description	Country of origin	Producer name	Organism or Allergen	Result/s	Units	Standard
3/04/2017	Burrata cheese	Italy	Caseificio Maldera Srl	Listeria monocytogenes	Detected	/125g	CHE 07/2016
3/04/2017	Dried coconut flesh	Indonesia	Ud Galang	Salmonella	Detected	/250g	DC 05/2014
7/04/2017	Tahini	Greece	N.Gabrilis & Partners	Salmonella	Detected	/125g	SES 05/2014
12/04/2017	Mussels	Fiji	Living Springs (Fiji) Limited	E.coli	24, 110, 0.7, 9.3, 4.3	MPN/g	MOL 05/2014
13/04/2017	Cooked Vannamei prawns	Vietnam	New Dragon Seafood Factory, Stapimex	Standard plate count	150000, 110000, 66000, 180000, 40000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
20/04/2017	Kashmiri chili powder	India	K.K.R. Food Products.	Salmonella	Detected	/125g	SPI 05/2014

Chemical / Contaminant / Toxin test results

Date of fail	Product description	Country of origin	Producer name	Organism or Allergen	Result/s	Units	Standard
6/04/2017	Headless dried anchovies	Philippines	Pinili Commodities Corp (Philippines)	Histamine	530	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
5/04/2017	Dried kelp	Republic of Korea	Yungil General Food Co	Iodine	4400	mg/kg	BSW 12/2016
7/04/2017	Chilled fresh tuna loin	Indonesia	Pt Sari Nusa Sejati	Histamine	420	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
10/04/2017	Frozen herring	Philippines	Pixcel Transglobal Food Inc	Histamine	210	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
27/04/2017	Pecel hot seasoning	Indonesia	Srikandi Sari Sejahtera	Aflatoxin	0.13	mg/kg	NUT 10/2016
9/03/2017	Sardines	Philippines	Fitrite Incorporated (Philippines)	Histamine	333	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016

Random monitoring of food for compliance

The department operates a five per cent random surveillance scheme to monitor a range of food imported into Australia for compliance to some standards in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code. These tests are applied as part of a rolling program of surveillance on the Australian food supply.

The following table details where results were found to be noncompliant with food standards. Future consignments of this food are subject to an increased rate of testing until a history of compliance is achieved.

More information on surveillance food and the tests applied can be found on the Tests applied to surveillance food webpage.

Date of fail	Product description	Country of origin	Producer name	Organism or Analyte	Result/s	Units	Standard
19/04/2017	Gold atta flour	India	General Mills India	Lead	0.22	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.1
21/04/2017	Rice powder (flour)	India	Kottackal Agro Foods	Lead	0.25	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.1
20/01/2017	Dried red dates	China	Zhongshan Kun Bo Foodstuff Import & Export Corp Ltd	Cyhalothrin	0.02	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
6/04/2017	Oranges	Egypt	Nagy Foods	Cyhalothrin	0.02	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
26/04/2017	Frozen strawberry pulp	China	Shouguang Tiancheng Hongli Food Co Ltd	Procymidone	0.10	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
24/04/2017	Strawberry mango flavoured supplementary sports food	United States	REDCON 1	Composition (identified through labelling)	Additives aminoisoheptane & octopamine not permitted in this food		FSC 2.9.4
24/04/2017	Pineapple flavoured supplementary sports food	United States	REDCON 1	Composition (identified through labelling)	Additives aminoisoheptane & octopamine not permitted in this food		FSC 2.9.4
23/03/2017	Basmati rice	India	KOHINOOR FOODS LTD	Buprofezin	0.066	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2