Fruit likely contaminated by nearby fields: council
GOING BANANAS:
The Council of Agriculture said it would strengthen regulation and inspection of fruit farms exporting to Japan to ensure product quality
By Yang Yuan-ting and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A shipment of bananas that was rejected by Japan early this month might have been contaminated by nearby fields, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said yesterday.
Japan Customs had destroyed the shipment of 450 crates of bananas after tests showed that the fruit contained 0.02 parts per million (ppm) of Decis, an insecticide better known as Dimiening (第滅寧) in Taiwan, COA Deputy Minister Chen Junne-jih (陳駿季) told a news conference.