Mangosteens from Thailand were stopped at Taiwan's border for the second consecutive week, as they contained excessive amounts of an insecticide. FDA Deputy Director-General Lin Chin-fu said Tuesday that mangosteens imported by Greather Fruit Trading Co., Ltd contained 0.05 mg/kg of the insecticide cypermethrin, well above the maximum permissible limit of 0.01 mg/kg.
The batch of 1,704 kg of mangosteens will be destroyed or returned to its country of origin, Lin said. According to the FDA's weekly reports on intercepted imports, mangosteens imported by the same company were also blocked at the border last week because they contained excessive levels of cadmium. That prompted the FDA to increase the frequency of its checks of products imported by Greather Fruit Trading to shipment-by-shipment inspections, Lin said.
