Failing Food Report – January 2020

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Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, January 2020

This report lists food that has failed under the Imported Food Inspection Scheme (IFIS).

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Risk food tests

We target and monitor food that poses a high or medium risk to public health. We test 100% of risk food imports until we establish a history of compliance.

Table 1 lists noncompliant food we’ve detected.

Noncompliant food can’t be distributed for sale in Australia. We supervise the importer destroying or re-exporting it.

Table 1 Risk food test results

Date of fail	Product description	Country of origin	Producer name	Reason for fail	Result/s	Units	Reference
07/01/2020	Frozen cooked black tiger prawns	Vietnam	Trong Nhan Seafood Company	Vibrio alginolyticus	Detected	/125g	Section3, (2)(i) of the Imported Food Control Act 1992
09/01/2020	Cooked pasted crab	Vietnam	Hai Chau Aquatic Product Company Limited	Standard plate count	100 000, 150 000, 73 000, 77 000, 290 0000	cfu/g	CRU 03/2019
21/01/2020	Black pepper	Iran	Golha Food Industries	Salmonella	Detected	/125g	SPI 06/2019
21/01/2020	Gorgonzola dolce intero DOP cheese	Italy	La Casearia Carpenedo	Listeria monocytogenes	Detected	/125g	CHE 07/2018
28/01/2020	Crushed chilli	Myanmar	H-Htet Company Limited	Salmonella	Detected	/125g	SPI 06/2019
30/01/2020	Frozen cooked and peeled vannamei shrimp	Vietnam	Ocean Shine Food Ltd Co (Osc)	Standard plate count	59 000, 33 000, 16 000, 210 000, 1 100 000	cfu/g	CRU 03/2019
07/01/2020	Peanut cake	Malaysia	Meng Choon Food Industries Sdn Bhd	Aflatoxin	0.057	mg/kg	NUT 11/2018
17/01/2020	Tapioca chips	India	Malabar Natural Foods Pvt Ltd	Hydrocyanic acid	20	mg/kg	CAS 09/2016
17/01/2020	Tapioca chips masala flavour	India	Malabar Natural Foods Pvt Ltd	Hydrocyanic acid	24	mg/kg	CAS 09/2016
23/01/2020	Tapioca chilli strips	India	Malabar Natural Foods Pvt Ltd	Hydrocyanic acid	11	mg/kg	CAS 09/2016
23/01/2020	Tapioca chips	India	Malabar Natural Foods Pvt Ltd	Hydrocyanic acid	21	mg/kg	CAS 09/2016
30/01/2020	Hot and spicy cracker nuts	Philippines	Dmc Enterprise	Aflatoxin	0.016	mg/kg	NUT 11/2018
30/01/2020	Peanuts	Indonesia	Ud Galang	Aflatoxin	0.045	mg/kg	NUT 11/2018
30/01/2020	Salted anchovies	Philippines	Golden Hands Mfg Corp	Histamine	260	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016

Surveillance food tests

We randomly test 5% of surveillance food imports. We test for compliance to certain standards in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code and to verify safety.

Table 2 lists noncompliant food we’ve detected. We will test future consignments of this food at an increased rate of testing. We do this until the overseas producer reaches a history of compliance. To achieve this, we apply a holding order to the noncompliant food from the particular overseas producer. This legal instrument flags the food for increased testing.

‘HO match’ indicates the fail was against an existing holding order. See a list of published holding orders.

Table 2 Surveillance food test results

Date of fail	Product description	Country of origin	Producer name	Test applied	Reason for fail	Result/s	Units	Reference	Holding order number
07/01/2020	Toor dal	Myanmar	Ays Mfg Co Ltd	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Chlorpyrifos	0.038	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	HO match
07/01/2020	Frozen pandan leaves	Thailand	O-Cha Food Pack Co., Ltd (Thailand)	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Fludioxonil	0.03	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	HO match
10/01/2020	Margarine	Indonesia	Pt Unilever Indonesia Tbk	Composition	Niacin ,Vitamin B1 and B2	Not permitted in this food	n/a	FSC 1.3.2	HO match
15/01/2020	Fresh betel leaves	India	Thangapandi International	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Carbendazim Metalaxyl	0.065 0.92	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	15619
17/01/2020	Frozen basa steaks	Vietnam	Viet Nam Fish Co Ltd	Seafood antimicrobial tests	Enrofloxacin	0.005	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	15625
17/01/2020	Frozen hot Thai red chillies	Vietnam	Thai Thuan Binh Co. Ltd	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Chlorpyrifos Difenoconazole	0.042 0.071	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	HO match
17/01/2020	Frozen hot Thai red chillies	Vietnam	Thai Thuan Binh Co. Ltd	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Difenoconazole Propiconazole	0.059 0.11	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	HO match
21/01/2020	Chinese spinach	China	Shanghai Xushun Foodstuff Co Ltd	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Paclobutrazol	0.02	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	15627
21/01/2020	Frozen soft shell crab	Myanmar	Gallant Ocean Trading Co., Ltd.	Seafood antimicrobial tests	Nitrofurazone	0.002	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	15631
21/01/2020	Frozen soft shell crab	Myanmar	Gallant Ocean Trading Co., Ltd.	Seafood antimicrobial tests	Nitrofurazone	0.003	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	15631
21/01/2020	Frozen soft shell crab	Myanmar	Gallant Ocean Trading Co., Ltd.	Seafood antimicrobial tests	Nitrofurazone	0.003	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	15631
28/01/2020	Preserved plums	China	Kai Fat Foods Company Limited	Composition	Additive Sodium benzoate (E211)	Not permitted in this food	n/a	FSC 1.3.1	15636
31/01/2020	Raspberry juice concentrate	United States	Doehler Juice Solutions	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Captan	33.7	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	15646