288 Batches of Products Rejected by Taiwan Customs in H1 2022

Disclosed by Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s official website, 288 batches of products were rejected by Taiwan Customs in the first half of 2022.

Non-compliance analysis by country

Most non-compliant products are from Chinese mainland (26%) and Japan (22%). Other involved places of origin include Indonesia (6%), Chile (6%), Vietnam (6%), America (5.6%), India (4.9%), etc.

• Chinese mainland

Among the 76 non-compliant products, 38 (50%) are food contact materials, followed by vegetable (26%) and seed, fruit and plant & products thereof (e.g., ginseng, pickled cucumber) (13%).

• Japan

Among the 62 non-compliant products, 73% are fruits (most of them are strawberries), followed by aquatic products (15%).

• Indonesia

Processed aquatic products (e.g., shrimp paste) as well as seed, fruit and plant & products thereof are the major non-compliant products, both accounted for 30%.

• Chile

All of the non-compliant products from Chile belong to fruit category. Among the 17 non-compliant items, cherry accounted for 59%.

• Vietnam

Vegetable is the major non-compliant food category from Vietnam, which accounted for 41% of the total non-compliant products.

Non-compliance analysis by category

Among the 288 non-compliant products, most of them are fruits (25%), vegetable (17%), food contact material (FCM) (13%), seed, fruit and plant & products thereof (11%) and aquatic products (8%).

Top 5 non-compliant reasons are related to pesticide residue (52%), leaching test of FCM products (13%), heavy metal (12.5%), preservative (10%) and sweetener (5%).

Non-compliant items of the top 5 non-compliant categories