Food Control - Import notifications by causes (2022)

In 2022, Australia recorded 80 import notifications of fisheries and aquaculture products through the Imported Food Inspection Scheme of the Australian Government. The causes of notification were organized into the following three categories: chemical, histamine and microbiological. As summarized in the table below, most import notifications were due to chemical issues with 37 cases, followed by the presence of histamine above the maximum levels with 25 cases and by microbiological issues with 18 cases. It is important to note that there was a strong increase of the number of import notifications from 61 in 2021 to 80 in 2022.

Month Chemical Histamine Microbiological Total
January 3 1 1 5
February 7 7 0 14
March 5 3 1 9
April 2 1 0 3
May 4 4 2 10
June 3 1 1 5
July 1 2 2 5
August 3 0 2 5
September 4 4 5 13
October 1 0 3 4
November 4 2 0 6
December 0 0 1 1
Total 37 25 18 80

Source: Australian Goverment

Percentage of the causes

As shown in the figure, chemical was the main category in terms of number of notifications, accounting for 46 percent of the total. Histamine accounted for 31 percent and microbiological causes (23 percent).

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