According to Mr. Chen Ching-yu, Head of TFDA's Northern Region, although the pesticide cremezol is allowed to be used in Taiwan, it is not allowed to be used in taro products, so the entire 27 tons of taro sliced fresh (FROZEN TARO (BROKEN) that failed this test was returned and destroyed.

At the same time, Chen also said that when Vietnam's third batch of frozen taro was found to not meet standards within half a year on December 20 last year, discussions were initiated by the Taiwanese side. On December 26, 2022, TFDA decided to strengthen control by randomly sampling 20~50% of all taro shipments imported from Vietnam. Combined with this shipment, in the past half year, 4 batches of taro imported from Vietnam did not meet quarantine standards.

Regarding the shipment of fresh peas "FRESH PEA POD", Chen provided information that Dametedon is an approved pesticide in Taiwan and it is allowed to exist on crops, but it was not allowed to be discovered on bean plants, so all 5,440 kg of these beans were also returned and destroyed. And TFDA also decided to increase the sampling frequency for fresh peas from 20 to 50%.

Previously, Chen said that random inspection after import discovered that Vietnamese peas violated regulations, so he increased inspection at the border and importers through 05 qualified import lots. Continuously meeting the new standard will reduce the sampling frequency to 2% to 10%. This time, because the importer did not have 5 consecutive batches that met standards, the total number of qualified imported goods of this importer must reach three times the number of unqualified imported goods to be able to be regulated. adjust down.

Minh Toan