Failing Food Report – January 2017

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
16/01/2017	Cheese	Italy	Salcis Sas Di Morbidi A&C (It 09-35 Ce)	Listeria monocytogenes	Detected	/125g	CHE 07/2016
18/01/2017	Organic shredded coconut	Sri lanka	Rmr Coconut Products Exporters (Pvt) Ltd	Salmonella	Detected	/250g	DC 05/2014
20/01/2017	Blue cheese	Italy	La Casearia Carpenedo Srl (It05294ce)	Listeria monocytogenes	Detected	/125g	CHE 07/2016
30/01/2017	Halawa pistachio	Lebanon	Al Nakhil Co (Lebanon)	Salmonella	D, D, D, D, D	/25g	SES 05/2014

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 foods webpage.

Date of fail	Product description	Country of origin	Producer name	Organism or Analyte	Result/s	Units	Standard
10/01/2017	Dried longan	Thailand	Man A Frozen Foods Co Ltd (Establishment 1069)	Carbendazim	0.09	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
11/01/2017	Frozen garlic marinated prawns	Vietnam	Quocviet Seaproducts Processing Trading Co Ltd (Vietnam)	Enrofloxacin	0.0045	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
11/01/2017	Preserved orange peel	China	Guangdong Zhongshan Guzhen Lihua Farming Byproduct Factory	Lead	0.35	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.1
16/01/2017	Preserved bean curd	China	Beijing Second Business Wangzhihe Food Co Ltd	Bacillus cereus	59000est, 1800, 5800, 28000, 6800	cfu/g	User guide to FSC 1.6.1
27/01/2017	Fresh lemons	Egypt	Nagy Foods	Cyhalothrin	0.04	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
30/01/2017	Fresh garlic shoots	China	Shandong Sinofarm Food Co., Ltd	Carbendazim	0.12	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
30/01/2017	Dried shrimps	Malaysia	Malexport Enterprise	Standard Plate Count	12000, 4900000, 1100000, 30000, 780000	cfu/g	FSC 1.6.1