Failing Food Report – December 2017

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Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, December 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. 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
6/12/2017	Cooked peeled prawns	Vietnam	Seavina Joint Stock Company	Vibrio cholerae	Detected	/125g	CRU 05/2014
5/12/2017	Blue swimmer crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	1000, 1300000, 1800000, 1000000, <1000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
5/12/2017	Cooked shrimp	Malaysia	Sb Marine Products Sdn Bhd	Standard plate count	2900000, 49000, 3500000 est, 60000, 48000000 est	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
1/12/2017	Cooked whole black tiger shrimp	Malaysia	Sb Marine Products Sdn Bhd	Standard plate count	140000, 580000, 240000, 770000, 1900000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
4/12/2017	Frozen breaded oyster meat	Japan	Nosui Corporation	E. coli	<2.3, <2.3, 9.3, <2.3, 2.3	MPN/g	MOL 04/2017
13/12/2017	Cooked peeled prawns	Vietnam	Minh Phu - Hau Giang Seafood Corp	Vibrio cholerae	Detected	/125g	CRU 05/2014
11/12/2017	Cooked whole vannamei shrimp	Vietnam	Viet Shrimp Corporation	Standard plate count	66000, 100000, 200000, 180000, 1300000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
12/12/2017	Blue swimmer crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	<1000, 8800000, <1000, <1000, <1000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
12/12/2017	Blue swimmer crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	140000, ~58000000, <1000, <1000, 27000000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
12/12/2017	Blue swimmer crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	25000000, <1000, <1000, <1000, <1000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
15/12/2017	Gorgonzola soft cheese	Italy	Ciresa Snc (Italy) I-03/165/Cee (Lecco)	Listeria monocytogenes	Detected	/125g	CHE 03/2017
15/12/2017	Blue swimmer crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	460000, 790000, 1200000, 5200000, 5300000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
15/12/2017	Blue swimmer crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	<1000, 1300000, 500000, <1000, 600000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
15/12/2017	Blue swimmer crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	<1000, 110000, 400000, <1000, 250000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
15/12/2017	Blue swimmer crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	500000, 600000, 150000, ~43000000, <1000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
15/12/2017	Blue swimmer crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	<1000, 4600000, 25000, <1000, <1000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
15/12/2017	Blue swimmer crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	<1000, 3100000, <1000, 20000000, 2200000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
15/12/2017	Blue swimmer crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	1800000, <1000, <1000, <1000, 7000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
15/12/2017	Blue swimmer crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	160000, <1000, <1000, 4200000, 39000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
11/12/2017	Cooked and peeled shrimp	China	Shantou Jintai Aquatic Product Industrial Co Ltd	Standard plate count	600000, 110000, 400000, 11000, 67000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
29/12/2017	Cooked whole vannamei prawn	Malaysia	Ql Marine Products Sdn Bhd	Standard plate count	2000000, 54000, 4000, <1000, 14000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
29/12/2017	Blue swimmer crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	<1000, <1000, 260000, 150000, 150000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
29/12/2017	Blue swimmer crab meat	Indonesia	Phillips Seafood (Indonesia)	Standard plate count	5300000, <1000, 200000, <1000, 710000	cfu/g	CRU 05/2014
29/12/2017	Cooked and peeled shrimp	Thailand	Lee Heng Seafood Co Ltd (Establishment 1177)	Standard plate count	29000000, 530000, 10000, 13000, 850000	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
1/12/2017	Pickled gouramy fish	Thailand	Khoeilao International Co., Ltd	Histamine	240	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
1/12/2017	Chilled sardines	Indonesia	Ud Damena	Histamine	400	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
15/12/2017	Marinated anchovies	Italy	Agostino Recca	Histamine	1100	mg/kg	HIS 12/2016
22/12/2017	Peanut cake	Malaysia	Lotus Home Made Cookies Sdn Bhd	Aflatoxin	0.043	mg/kg	NUT 10/2016

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
1/12/2017	Seedless red dates	China	Zhanhua Kingman Food Co.Ltd	Carbendazim Difenoconazole Tebuconazole	0.47 0.14 0.32	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
6/12/2017	Cut okra	India	Global Gourmet Pvt Ltd	Acephate Monocrotophos	0.06 0.075	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
8/12/2017	Chewing gum	Taiwan	Taiwan Morinaga (Taiwan)	Vitamin C	Not permitted in this food		FSC 1.3.2
8/12/2017	Formulated sports supplement	United States	5% Nutrition Llc	Caffeine	Not permitted in this food		FSC 1.3.1
22/12/2017	Red chilli	Thailand	O-Cha Food Pack Co., Ltd (Thailand)	Myclobutanil Difenoconazole Propiconazole	0.061 0.088 0.082	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
22/12/2017	Dried longan seedless	Thailand	O-Cha Food Pack Co., Ltd (Thailand)	Carbendazim	0.077	mg/kg	FSC 1.4.2
19/12/2017	Chilli soybean paste and chilli sauce	Taiwan	Shih Chuan Excellence Food Co Ltd	Additive E126 (Ponceau 6R)	Not permitted in this food		FSC 1.3.1
13/12/2017	Seasoning	South Africa	Unilever Bestfoods Robertsons (South Africa)	Irradiated chilli	Not a permitted treatment for this food		FSC 1.2.1/1.5.3

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