英文摘要 |
Mycotoxins, a group of naturally occurring fungi-produced toxicants not intentionally added to food, might pose various extents of health hazards. In order to reduce the risk of exposure to mycotoxin caused by food consumption, a post-market surveillance program on mycotoxins was conducted in 2020 according to the newly implemented Sanitation Standard for Contaminants and Toxins in food. A total of 800 samples were collected by 22 local health authorities nationwide to test for mycotoxins. The unqualified rate of 6.1% (49/800) this year was higher than the 4.9% (39/800) in 2019. The non-compliance rate was the highest at 13.3% (40/300) for peanut products, followed by 10.0% (6/60) of the new popular grains, 3.3% (1/30) of both dried fruit and cereal based foods for infant and young child and 2.6% (1/39) of red yeast rice. Other samples of rice, wheat, corn, spices, nuts and coffee were all in compliance with the regulations. The non-compliance rate of packaged peanut products was 11.0% (28/254), which was lower than the 26.1% (12/46) of non-packaged peanut products. In grains, the non-compliance rate was mainly for the packaged adlay seeds products, accounting for 83.3% (5/6). Based on the sampling field analysis, higher violation rates of 31.4% (11/35) and 21.0% (8/38) were reported from food wholesaler and traditional vending locations, respectively. According to the source analysis of unqualified products, thirteen cases were imported from abroad and 26 cases were made domestically. All violating products have been removed out of the food supply chain. The survey results were sent to the local governments and authority in charge of border control to enforce penalties to the non-compliant suppliers, to strengthen follow-up inspection on those domestic high-risk manufacturers, and to enhance border inspection. |