A total of 484 unqualified imported agricultural and food products in Taiwan in 2020, mainly related to vegetables and vegetable products, fruits and fruit products, aquatic products, tea and other products, the reasons for these unqualified products are concentrated in pesticide residues, heavy metals, pollutants and Toxins, preservatives, veterinary drugs, etc.

1. Pesticide residues
Among the above-mentioned cases of unqualified imported products in Taiwan, 311 cases involved pesticide residues. Mainly include vegetables and vegetable products (99 cases), fruits and fruit products (94 cases), tea (58 cases), seasonings (33 cases) and other products (27 cases).

A. Vegetables and vegetable products. A total of 77 pesticides were involved, mainly including fenprenil, acesulfan, beclitaxel, fluniamide, dexamethasone, cymbal, bufezone, beacamine, senmenin, idazamide, fluparinil, and Asia Tomin, Beffenti, Fickley and other 14 species.

B. Fruits and fruit products. A total of 47 kinds of pesticides are involved, mainly including Cyambe, Imethasone, Dekli, Cimefen, Imethasone, Cypafen, Siguafen, and Yatomin. In terms of the specific products involved, for example, the main reasons for the failure of tangerines are the exceeding standards of Dekli, Sifenfen, Cyamb and Cimetifene; for strawberries, incepafen and fluniamide.

C. Tea and tea products. A total of 26 pesticides are involved. The most important ones are Saiguopei, Fluoxazole, Fipronil and 2,6-DIPN. From the specific products involved, the reasons for the disqualification of black and green tea are concentrated in Saiguopei, 2,6-DIPN and Fiprone.

2. Heavy metals, pollutants and toxins, preservatives

A. Heavy metals. A total of 78 cases belong to the problem of excessive cadmium, including aquatic products (60 cases). Specific products include frozen clove fish, frozen swordfish roe, frozen crab, frozen black flag, cod liver, monkfish, frozen sunfish intestines , Frozen umbrella swordfish belly and oysters.

B. Pollutants and toxins. There were 33 cases, mainly including cyanic acid, methylmercury and aflatoxin. Substandard products were concentrated in processed foods, aquatic products, and condiments.

C. Preservatives. A total of 25 cases were involved. The preservatives involved were mainly benzoic acid, hexadienoic acid, and p-hydroxybenzoic acid. The unqualified products were concentrated in functional foods, processed foods, aquatic products, and condiments.

3. Veterinary drugs, norovirus

A. Veterinary medicine. A total of 14 cases involved 14 kinds of veterinary drugs, mainly reducing malachite green and carbazine. The unqualified products are mainly aquatic products (white ribbon, and salmon sashimi) and poultry products (frozen chicken legs).

B. Norovirus. There are 7 cases in total, and the unqualified cases involved are all aquatic products (raw oysters and fresh oyster meat).

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