Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration has intercepted a major shipment of Chinese mitten crabs after laboratory tests revealed traces of a banned veterinary drug, raising renewed alarm over the safety of food imports from China. Testing confirmed the presence of 0.04 parts per million of sulfadiazine, an antibiotic prohibited in crustaceans under Taiwan’s food safety regulations.

 

 

Liu Fang-ming, director of the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration’s Northern Taiwan Management Center, stated during a press briefing that authorities have ordered the entire batch to be either destroyed or returned to the exporter in China.