USDA Issues Report on Agricultural Exports Destroyed, Rejected by Taiwan
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service released a report on U.S. exports to Taiwan that were rejected or destroyed during 2019, including the findings in each case and the types of goods most susceptible to rejections. Taiwan rejected…
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or destroyed 53 agricultural imports from the U.S. that were deemed non-compliant with Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration food safety standards, with chemical residue on imports accounting for 34 of the rejections. Vietnam detected the chemical residue “fluopyram” on 11 shipments, including blueberries, broccoli, onion, lettuce and fruit powder. The second-largest source of violations was food additives, with 11 rejections, USDA said.