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Food and Drug Administration
2. Imported Food and Related Product Inspections
(1) All the Imported food and related products must be inspected at the border inspection
and must comply with regulations to enter.
(2) In 2013, imported food and related product inspections on borders were completed for
a total of 514,710 batches, of which 38,460 were examined (7.47%). Approximately
1.45% failed to meet regulations and was either withdrawn or destroyed (Table 2-4).
Table 2-4 Common non compliant food products among border inspection applications
Rank
Product
category
Inspection
application
batch
number
Test
batch
number
Compliance
batch number
and failure rate
(%)
Non
compliant
inspection
items
Common
food items
Country
1 Fruit
23,566 2,321 104
（
4.48
）
Pesticide
residue
Strawberries,
fresh
peaches,
satsuma
mandarines,
etc.
Japan, USA,
etc.
2 Vegetables 21,209 1,647 60
（
3.64
）
Pesticide
residue
Chili pepper
and bell
pepper fruits,
pea pods,
spinach,
shiso leaves,
asparagus
Mainland
China,
Japan,
Thailand and
USA, etc.
3 Tea
7,168 1,669 55
（
3.30
）
Pesticide
residue
Green tea,
black tea,
macha, etc
Japan,
Vietnam, etc.
4
Traditional
Chinese
medicines
also used
as food
2,147 565 37
（
6.55
）
Pesticide
residue
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snow fungus,
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etc
Mainland
China, etc.
5
Crustacean
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14,195 1,010 36
（
3.56
）
Heavy
metals
Live mud
crabs,
lobsters, other
crab species,
etc.
Indonesia,
Philippine,
USA, etc.
6 Spices
2,285 250 36
（
14.40
）
Pesticide
residue
Chili powder,
Sichuan
pepper
powder, etc.
India,
Thailand,
Mainland
China, etc.