So which exporting country had the most food safety incidents in 2013?
The global monitoring company, Food Sentry, has just released it’s Top Ten Food Safety violators list for 2013.
Thankfully, Australia did not make it onto the top ten list of those exporting countries that had contributed to the 3400 verified food safety incidents in 2013.
The top violator was India with 380 of the 3400 incidents worldwide.
The incidents were those of raw or minimally processed foods that were in contravention of the importing countries food laws, and included; seafood, vegetables, fruits, hers/ spices, meats, dairy, nuts / seeds and grains.
The most common incident, with over a third of the total, was excess or illegal pesticide contamination. Pathogenic contamination was the second highest ranking incident type with22 percent of the total.
The other members of the 2013 Top Ten were; China, Mexico, France, USA, Vietnam, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Turkey and Spain.
Written by Rachelle Williams, The Green Food Safety Coach.