date:Jun 07, 2017
to a maximum fine of $50,000 and to imprisonment for six months upon conviction.
Since the regulation came into effect on August 1, 2014, the CFS has taken over 106 900 food samples at import, wholesale and retail levels for testing of pesticide residues, and a total of 189 vegetable and fruit samples (including the unsatisfactory samples announced today) have been detected as having excessive pesticide residues. The overall unsatisfactory rate is less than 0.2 per cent.
The CFS will follow u