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The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for monitoring the safety of imported foods and conducting border inspections for specific countries or products. Sudanese pigment is a banned food coloring and may cause cancer.
Sudanese pigment No. 4 was detected in the "Asafoetida Seasoning Powder" imported from India by Tiansong Enterprise Company. (Photo provided by Food and Drug Administration)
The Food and Drug Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare today announced items that failed border inspections. Among them, a batch of "Asafoetida Seasoning Powder" imported by Tiansong Enterprise Company from India was detected with Sudan Pigment 4. A total of 500 kilograms of the product were destroyed at the border. From September 8 this year to September 7, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration will conduct surveillance and inspection of other seasoning sauces from India at the border.
Liu Fangming, director of the North District Management Center of the Food and Drug Administration, pointed out that Sudanese pigment No. 4 was detected in the Indian seasoning powder imported from India by Tiansong Enterprise Company. According to the "Food Safety and Hygiene Management Act", it is a substance that is not allowed to be used. The products in the case must be destroyed at the border and cannot be returned.
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Liu Fangming said that from March 7 to September 7 this year, the Food and Drug Administration accepted 34 batches of other sauces from India for inspection. One batch failed to pass the inspection, with a failure rate of 2.9%. The reason for the failure was unqualified Sudanese pigments. From September 8 to September 7 next year, the Food and Drug Administration has monitored and inspected other sauces from India at the border, that is, they can only be imported after 100% inspection of the Sudanese pigments.
In addition, there is another batch of oil suction pans imported from Malaysia by the Taipei Branch of Hong Kong Shang Hesmen Food Company. Due to failure in the dissolution test, 185.7 kilograms of the products in the case need to be returned or destroyed at the border. The Food and Drug Administration has also adjusted the border inspection measures for this industry to strengthen random batch inspections, with a random inspection ratio of 20% to 50%. In addition, because only one batch of the same product in Malaysia has failed in the past six months, general batch inspection measures are currently maintained.
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