2024-03-12 02:37:30
Something happened at the border once more! 673 kilograms of Costco Kirkland’s “basil seasoning sauce” tested positive for Level 1 cancer-causing pesticide 67
CNEWS Convergence News Network reporter Chen Junkai/Reporting from Taipei
The investigation of Sudanese Red Poison Paprika has not been completed yet, and there is another incident at the border! The Food and Drug Administration announced the latest wave of border inspection failure lists this morning (12th). Costco’s own brand Kirkland’s “basil sauce” imported from the United States was found to contain pesticides that are banned in the country and are Class I carcinogens. Oxyethane. The Food and Drug Administration also announced that because the violation rate of imported sauces from the United States has reached the standard this year, it will comprehensively strengthen inspections and increase the sampling inspection rate to 20 to 50% until July 7.
The Food and Drug Administration announced this morning a list of 14 items that failed border inspections, including asparagus from Thailand, sorghum from Ukraine, peanuts from India, fresh strawberries from Japan, etc. Each of them was found to have pesticide residues and failed. According to regulations, all items were rejected. Returned or destroyed, it has not been sold in the domestic market.
Among them, a batch of “Basil Seasoning Sauce (911595 KS ITALIAN BASIL PESTO 22OZ)” imported by Costco Co., Ltd. from the United States, weighing 673.92 kilograms, was found to contain 0.1 mg/kg of residual pesticide ethylene oxide. The manufacturing The factory is RANA MEAL-COSTCO, and the brand is KIRKLAND SIGNATURE.
Lin Jinfu, deputy director of the Food and Drug Administration, said that ethylene oxide is not allowed to be used as a fungicide in Taiwan because it is a first-level carcinogen announced by the World Health Organization (WHO). Exposure to a certain amount will increase the risk of cancer. High, the human body should try to avoid contact with it. The Food and Drug Administration has, in accordance with the Food and Related Products Import Inspection Methods, comprehensively inspect all seasoning sauces imported from Costco from the same place of origin and with the same product classification number batch by batch, and all must be qualified. Taiwan can be entered.
On the other hand, Lin Jinfu said that so far 8 batches of American sauces imported to Taiwan this year have been found to be substandard, and the violation rate has reached the standard. The Food and Drug Administration will also take enhanced inspections from January 8 to July 7. batch, the inspection rate of all sauce products imported from the United States will be increased to 20 to 50%.
Something happened at the border once more! 673 kilograms of Costco’s Kirkland “basil seasoning sauce” tested positive for Level 1 cancer-causing pesticide 69
Something happened at the border once more! 673 kilograms of Costco Kirkland’s “basil seasoning sauce” tested positive for Level 1 cancer-causing pesticide 71
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