Failing Food Report – May 2017

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Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, May 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
4/05/2017	Cheese	Italy	Lantica Cascina Srl	Listeria monocytogenes	Detected	/125g	CHE 03/2017
8/05/2017	Fresh oyster meat	Malaysia	Seng Enterprise Seafood Supplier (1986) Sdn. Bhd	E.coli	24, 0.4, 24, 2.3, 4.3	MPN/g	MOL 05/2014
26/05/2017	Cheese	Italy	Rocca Toscana Formaggi Srl	Listeria monocytogenes	Detected	/125g	CHE 03/2017
30/05/2017	Cooked prawn meat	Malaysia	Jefi Aquatech Resources	Standard Plate Count	620000, 47000, 270000, 20000, 270000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014

Chemical / Contaminant / Toxin test results

Date of fail	Product description	Country of origin	Producer name	Organism or Allergen	Result/s	Units	Standard
4/05/2017	Braised peanuts	China	Zhangzhou Gangchang Canned Foods Co Ltd	Aflatoxin	0.019	mg/kg	NUT 10/2016
5/05/2017	Roasted peanuts	Myanmar	Shwe Myanmar Investment And Commercial Co Ltd	Aflatoxin	0.24	mg/kg	NUT 10/2016
5/05/2017	Pistachio kernels	United States	Cal Pure Pistachios Inc-USA	Aflatoxin	0.097	mg/kg	NUT 10/2016
16/05/2017	Roasted and salted peanut kernels	Turkey	Peyman	Aflatoxin	0.017	mg/kg	NUT 10/2016
30/05/2017	Dried kelp	Korea, Republic of	Sempio Food Company (Korea)	Iodine	3100	mg/kg	BSW 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
3/05/2017	Dried red dates	India	Gaoming Hui Sheng Feng Trading Company Limited of Foshan City	Tebuconazole	0.14	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
3/05/2017	Frozen strawberry puree	China	Shouguang Tiancheng Hongli Food Co Ltd	Procymidone	0.07	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
4/05/2017	Green okra	Egypt	Orouba Agrifoods Processing Co	Chlorpyrifos	0.02	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
8/05/2017	Frozen Chinese spinach	China	Shanghai Jx International Trading Co Ltd	Cyhalothrin	0.01, 0.02	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
11/05/2017	Instant powdered drink mix	Philippines	Liwayway Market Corp (Philippines)	Niacinamide Riboflavin	Vitamins; Niacinamide and Riboflavin not permitted in this food		FSC 1.3.2
15/05/2017	Garlic shoots	China	Ng Lukang Food Co Ltd	Carbendazim	0.4	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
16/05/2017	Frozen small red chilli	Vietnam	Nam Hai Company Ltd	Difenoconazole	0.1	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
16/05/2017	Frozen small red chilli	Vietnam	Nam Hai Company Ltd	Difenoconazole	0.077	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
17/05/2017	Preserved vegetable	China	Sichuan Gaofuji Food Co Ltd	Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum)	Prohibited plant; Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum)		FSC 1.4.4
8/05/2017	Supplementary sports food	United States	Custom Nutraceuticals	Caffeine	Additive caffeine is not permitted in this food		FSC 1.3.1
18/05/2017	Dried longan fruit	China	Guangdong Zhongshan Guzhen Lihua Farming Byproduct Factory	Carbendazim Chlorpyrifos	0.2 0.04	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
18/05/2017	Preserved plum	China	Guangdong Zhongshan Guzhen Lihua Farming Byproduct Factory	Lead	0.23	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.1
18/05/2017	Preserved sliced green papaya	China	Guangdong Zhongshan Guzhen Lihua Farming Byproduct Factory	Lead	0.49	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.1
23/05/2017	Rice	India	Virat Global Exim	Lead	0.27	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.1
25/05/2017	Dates	China	Haoxiangni Dates Enterprise Co. Ltd	Bifenthrin Propargite	0.041 0.678	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
25/05/2017	Dates	China	Haoxiangni Dates Enterprise Co. Ltd	Tebuconazole	0.052	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
26/05/2017	Seedless red dates	China	Shantou Lifa Trading Co. Ltd	Propargite	0.12	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
26/05/2017	Fresh asparagus	Peru	Agricola La Venta Sa	Methomyl	0.66	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
17/05/2017	Salted plum	China	Yiwu Tengran Trading	Lead	0.27	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.1
31/05/2017	Frozen boiled Korean leek	Korea, Republic of	Chg People	Carbendazim Iprodione Procymidone	0.085 0.94 0.9	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2

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