date:Oct 09, 2023
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 wee