Failing Food Report – January 2018

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
2/01/2018	Cooked prawns	India	Asvini Fisheries Ltd	Standard plate count	74000, 250000, 170000, 52000, 410000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
2/01/2018	Pepper powder	Sri Lanka	Wijaya Products Pvt Ltd (Sri Lanka)	Salmonella	Detected	/125g	SPI 05/2014
3/01/2018	Cooked garlic prawns	Vietnam	Seavina Joint Stock Company	Standard plate count	<1000, 10000 est. 2000 est. 120000, 12000000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
3/01/2018	Black pepper powder	India	M/S Mahashian Di Hatti Ltd.,	Salmonella	Detected	/125g	SPI 05/2014
2/01/2018	Pasteurised crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	5700000, 2800000, 5100000, 2100000, 640000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
10/01/2018	Cooked prawn rings	Vietnam	Minh Phu - Hau Giang Seafood Corp	Standard plate count	1500000, 1600, 25000, 12000, 700	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
15/01/2018	Cooked garlic prawns	Vietnam	Seavina Joint Stock Company	Standard plate count	12000, 16000, 5200, 2400000, 3200	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
17/01/2018	Frozen fresh water mussels	Fiji	Fiji Agro Marketing	E. coli	46.0, 9.3, 9.3, <2.3, 9.3	MPN/g	MOL 04/2017
18/01/2018	Crushed chilli	Thailand	Mae Pratuong Brand	Salmonella	Detected	/125g	SPI 05/2014
15/01/2018	Gorgonzola DOP tosi	Italy	Caseificio Tosi Dei F.Lli Tosi Snc	Listeria monocytogenes	Detected	/125g	CHE 03/2017
15/01/2018	Burrata cheese	Italy	Caseificio Palazzo Spa	Listeria monocytogenes	Detected	/125g	CHE 03/2017
23/01/2018	Cooked prawn meat	Vietnam	C.P Vietnam Corporation	Standard plate count	~3300000, <1000, <1000, <1000, 3000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
23/01/2018	Chilli powder	India	Mahashian Di Hatti Ltd (India)	Salmonella	Detected	/125g	SPI 05/2014
24/01/2018	Organic white ground pepper	Sri Lanka	Bughary Bio Spices	Salmonella	Detected	/125g	SPI 05/2014
24/01/2018	Gorgonzola cheese	Italy	Ciresa Snc (Italy) I-03/165/Cee (Lecco)	Listeria monocytogenes	Detected	/125g	CHE 03/2017

Chemical / Contaminant / Toxin test results

Date of fail	Product description	Country of origin	Producer name	Organism or Allergen	Result/s	Units	Standard
8/01/2018	Dried anchovy	Sri Lanka	Thineera Traders	Histamine	680	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
8/01/2018	Dried bonito	Sri Lanka	Thineera Traders	Histamine	270	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
8/01/2018	Dried keeramin fish	Sri Lanka	Foreconns Canneries (Beruwelaq Sri Lanka)	Histamine	1000	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
8/01/2018	Dried seer fish	Sri Lanka	Foreconns Canneries (Beruwelaq Sri Lanka)	Histamine	390	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
8/01/2018	Dried fish powder	Japan	Fukushima Katsuo Co Ltd	Histamine	750	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
5/01/2018	Frozen sardines	Indonesia	Pt Emas Ikan Samudera Indonesia	Histamine	1059	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
9/01/2018	Maldive fish chips	Sri Lanka	Enrich Tea And Food Exports (Pvt) Ltd	Histamine	270	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
17/01/2018	Peanut fry	India	Abn Trades	Aflatoxin	0.079	mg/kg	NUT 10/2016
19/01/2018	Marinated anchovies	Italy	Agostino Recca	Histamine	1200	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
25/01/2018	Cracker nuts	Philippines	Ksk Food Products	Aflatoxin	0.019	mg/kg	NUT 10/2016
24/01/2018	Peanut candies	Malaysia	Pmn Biscuit Industries Sdn Bhd (Malaysia)	Aflatoxin	0.029	mg/kg	NUT 10/2016
30/01/2018	Salted anchovy sauce	Philippines	Kaelen Phils Inc	Histamine	280	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
24/01/2018	Hot peanut salad dressing	Indonesia	Cv Sentosa Enterprise	Aflatoxin	0.031	mg/kg	NUT 10/2016
24/01/2018	Mild peanut salad dressing	Indonesia	Cv Sentosa Enterprise	Aflatoxin	0.013 The product contains 62% peanut, therefore the calculated maximum level is 0.0093	mg/kg	NUT 10/2016
24/01/2018	Mild pecel peanut dressing	Indonesia	Cv Sentosa Enterprise	Aflatoxin	0.012 The product contains 54% peanut, therefore the calculated maximum level is 0.0081	mg/kg	NUT 10/2016
24/01/2018	Mild satay peanut dressing	Indonesia	Cv Sentosa Enterprise	Aflatoxin	0.017	mg/kg	NUT 10/2016

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
5/01/2018	Frozen mixed berries	Chile	Agricola Los Batros Sa	Procymidone	0.045	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
9/01/2018	Baby okra	India	Global Gourmet Pvt Ltd	Acephate	0.03	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
9/01/2018	Cut okra	India	Global Gourmet Pvt Ltd	Acephate	0.07	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
5/01/2018	Salted plums	China	H & N Australia Pty Ltd	Lead	0.2	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.1
10/01/2018	Betel nut	Myanmar	Eastern Lad Company Ltd (Yangon)	Betel nut	Prohibited plant	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.4
19/01/2018	Wheaten flour	Taiwan	Yi-Feng Food Co., Ltd.	Vitamin C	Not permitted in this food		FSC 1.3.2
23/01/2018	Fresh betel leaves	Myanmar	H-Htet Company Ltd	Chlorpyrifos Metalaxyl	0.23 0.3	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
24/01/2018	Mixed fruit jam	India	Hindustan Unilever Limited	Vitamin B3	Not permitted in this food		FSC 1.3.2
29/01/2018	Frozen seasoned squid	China	Dalian Gaishi Food Co Ltd	Colour annatto 160b	Not permitted in this food		FSC 1.3.1
30/01/2018	Dried goraka fruit	Sri Lanka	Rabeena Food (Pvt) Ltd (Sri Lanka)	2-Phenylphenol	0.18	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
30/01/2018	Salted plums	Hong Kong	Ettason (Hong Kong) Ltd	Lead	0.2	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.1
29/01/2018	Pandan leaves	Thailand	O-Cha Food Pack Co., Ltd (Thailand)	Chlorpyrifos Difenoconazole	0.043 0.078	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
29/01/2018	Pandan leaves	Thailand	O-Cha Food Pack Co., Ltd (Thailand)	Difenoconazole	0.39	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2