Failing Food Report – March 2020

Publication details

Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, March 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
3/03/2020	Kashmiri chilli powder	India	Brahmins Foods India (P) Ltd	Salmonella	Detected	/125g	SPI 06/2019
11/03/2020	Frozen boiled king crab legs	Japan	Yutaka Suisan	Listeria monocytogenes	Detected	/125g	CRU 03/2019
2/03/2020	Caffeine tablets	United States	Arnet Pharmaceuticals	Caffeine	30.8	g/100g	CAF 12/2019
16/03/2020	Powdered herring	Ghana	Gorgino Enterprise	Histamine	292	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
17/03/2020	Curry paste	Thailand	D&G Food Supply Co Ltd	Aflatoxin	0.244	mg/kg	NUT 11/2018
27/03/2020	Peanut satay sauce	Indonesia	Pt Enak Jaya Makmur (Indonesia)	Aflatoxin	0.041	mg/kg	NUT 11/2018
30/03/2020	Formulated supplementary sports food	United States	Granite Supplements	Caffeine	10	g/100g	CAF 12/2019
30/03/2020	Formulated supplementary sports food	United States	Granite Supplements	Caffeine	8.33	g/100g	CAF 12/2019
30/03/2020	Peanut masala	India	Malabar Natural Foods Pvt Ltd	Aflatoxin	0.022	mg/kg	NUT 11/2018
30/03/2020	Peanut candy bar	India	Malabar Natural Foods Pvt Ltd	Aflatoxin	0.012 (product contains 75% peanut, therefore the calculated maximum level is 0.011)	mg/kg	NUT 11/2018

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
2/03/2020	Dried elberta peaches halves	South Africa	Ceres Fruit Juices Pty Ltd (South Africa)	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Thiabendazole	0.046	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	15803
2/03/2020	Frozen dried longan	Thailand	Tanaya International Co Ltd	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Carbendazim	0.055	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	HO match
2/03/2020	Frozen dried longan	Thailand	Tanaya International Co Ltd	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Carbendazim	0.19	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	HO match
5/03/2020	Fresh naval oranges	Egypt	El Rawan Co For Import & Export	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Cyhalothrin	0.071	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	HO match
4/03/2020	Pan masala	India	Dharampal Satyapal Ltd	Composition	Areca catechu	Prohibited plant	n/a	FSC 1.4.4	15730
4/03/2020	Dried strawberries	Iran	Ratin Khosh Co	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Carbendazim	0.12	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	15731
6/03/2020	Dried longan meat	Thailand	Reanthong Agro Product Limited Partnership	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Carbendazim	0.13	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	15734
18/03/2020	Frozen green chillies	India	Arctic Agro Foods Pvt Ltd	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Cyhalothrin	0.02	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	HO match
18/03/2020	Frozen green chillies	India	Arctic Agro Foods Pvt Ltd	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Cyhalothrin Tebuconazole	0.03 0.07	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	HO match
17/03/2020	Chana dhal	Sri Lanka	Colombo Commodities	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Pirimiphos Methyl	0.16	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	15759
27/02/2020	Cereal	Japan	Calbee, Inc.	Composition	Vitamin B12 Ferric Sodium Citrate	Not permitted in this food	n/a	FSC 1.3.2	15720
24/03/2020	Bhindi (baby okra)	India	Global Gourmet Pvt Ltd	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Monocrotophos	0.073 Not permitted in this food	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	15768
24/03/2020	Instant coffee mix with collagen	Thailand	New Concept Product Co.	Composition	Vitamin C	Not permitted in this food	n/a	FSC 1.3.2	15769
24/03/2020	Instant coffee mix with white kidney bean extract	Thailand	New Concept Product Co.	Composition	Vitamin B1, B2 and B6	Not permitted in this food	n/a	FSC 1.3.2	15769
24/03/2020	Frozen spinach	India	Global Gourmet Pvt Ltd	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Chlorpyrifos Profenofos	0.67 0.034	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	HO match
25/03/2020	Frozen okra	Egypt	United Co. For Food Industry(Sae)	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Chlorpyrifos	0.02	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	HO match
24/03/2020	Frozen surti papdi (whole indian beans)	India	Global Gourmet Pvt Ltd	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Profenofos	0.047	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	15773
25/03/2020	Seasoning	Vietnam	Thao Nhi Import Export Company Limited	Composition	Vitamin A	Not permitted in this food	n/a	FSC 1.3.2	15777
30/03/2020	Dietary supplement	United States	Spectrum Labs	Composition	St John’s wort extract (Hypericum perforatum)	Restricted plant	n/a	FSC 1.4.4	15784
30/03/2020	Frozen mixed fruit	Canada	Nature's Touch Frozen Foods Inc	Fruit and vegetable residue screen	Tau-fluvalinate	0.11 Not permitted in this food	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2	15793
30/03/2020	Sardines in tomato sauce with chilli	Philippines	Chattrade Enterprises	Composition	Additive E160b (annatto)	Not permitted in this food	n/a	FSC 1.3.1	n/a*

* Risk food which failed a non-analytical test. Does not require a holding order.