Shenzhen Fourth Quarter Agricultural Product Monitoring: Cabbage and Others Found Non-Compliant

Recently, the Municipal Food and Drug Administration released the results of routine monitoring of agricultural product quality and safety in Shenzhen for the fourth quarter of 2015. According to the monitoring, a total of 1,080 samples of edible agricultural products were monitored across the city, with 39 non-compliant samples, giving a sample compliance rate of 96.4%. Among the various products sampled, the compliance rate for beans was only 69.2%.

It is understood that the samples were mainly taken from four stages: production bases, wholesale markets, farmers' markets and supermarkets. Among them, 360 samples were from the crop farming sector, of which 28 were non-compliant; 360 samples of aquatic products were taken, of which 8 were non-compliant; and 360 samples of livestock and poultry products were taken, of which 3 were non-compliant. Follow-up handling was carried out for all the products found non-compliant in the above tests.

The main non-compliant vegetable samples this quarter included common cabbage, choy sum, Chinese kale and others, and the compliance rate for beans was 69.2%.

A total of 360 aquatic product samples were monitored this quarter, with 8 samples exceeding the standard. The compliance rate for captured aquatic product samples was 100%, and the compliance rate for farmed fish samples was 97.7%; the non-compliant sample varieties were yellow catfish (yellowhead catfish), pomfret and sea bass. The compliance rate for farmed shrimp samples was 95.2%, and the non-compliant sample varieties were prawns, giant freshwater prawns and others.