PESTICIDE RESIDUES detected in Bing Han Ginseng

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IA #99-08, ---- 7/6/94 ATTACHMENT REVISED 9/23/03

SUBJECT: REVISION TO IMPORT ALERT #99-08, "DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL
EXAMINATION OF PROCESSED PRODUCTS FOR PESTICIDES"

*** This alert is being revised to reflect updated format and to correct the charge.***

TYPE OF ALERT: Detention Without Physical Examination

Note: This import alert contains guidance to FDA field personnel only. It does not establish
any requirements, or create any rights or obligations on FDA or on regulated entities.

PRODUCT: Processed Food Products

PRODUCT CODE: See Attachment

PROBLEM: Illegal Pesticide Residues

PAF: PES (Pesticide Residues)

PAC FOR COLLECTION: 04016A

COUNTRY: See Attachment

MANUFACTURER/ SHIPPER: See Attachment

MANUFACTURER/ SHIPPER I.D.#: See Attachment

IMPORTER'S
I.D. #: N/A

CHARGE: "The article is subject to refusal of admission pursuant to Section 801(a)(3) in that it
appears to contain a pesticide chemical, namely ______________, which is in violation of Section
402(a)(2)(B)."

OASIS CHARGE CODE: PESTICIDE

RECOMMENDING OFFICE: Division of Import Operations and Policy, HFC-170

REASON FOR ALERT: This alert provides a compilation of all processed foods that may be subject to
detention without physical examination due to illegal pesticide residues pursuant to the procedures
outlined in Chapter 9 of the RPM.

GUIDANCE: Districts may detain without physical examination shipments of the products identified in
the attachment if the shipper or manufacturer fails to provide a valid certificate of analysis
showing the product does not contain illegal residues of the cited pesticide(s).

A firm and product subject to detention without physical examination for a specific pesticide
under this import alert may also be exempt from the detention recommendation on Attachment B of
Import Alert
#99-15 for a different pesticide(s). In that case, the firm is still
required to provide certification that the product is free from the pesticide listed in the
attachment to this import alert. If the firm cannot provide certification, the product should be
detained with the charge shown above. The firm does not need to provide certification that the
product is free from the pesticides shown on Import Alert #99-15.

In the attachment, the column listing the commodity shows the episode number associated with the
commodity directly below, along with the abbreviation of the recommending district.

For questions or issues concerning science, science policy, sample collection, analysis,
preparation, or analytical methodology, contact the Division of Field Science at
(301) 827-7650.

PRIORITIZATION GUIDANCE: I

FOI: No purging required.

KEYWORDS: Processed, pesticides, industrial chemicals, chemicals

PREPARED BY: Ted Poplawski, DIOP, 301-443-6553.

DATE LOADED INTO FIARS: February 26, 2001

INDIVIDUAL GROWERS/SHIPPERS RECOMMENDED FOR DWPE BY COUNTRY

COUNTRY: ALGERIA

EFFECTIVE COMMODITY SHIPPER/MANUFACTURER PESTICIDE(S) DATE

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Ginseng Bing Han Medical Factory Quintozene
3/13/2001 (Powdered) 81, Cherng Gong Street *Pentachlorobenzene 211-9414883-5 Ell Jeun Village,
Taiwan *Tetrachloroaniline
I290230/120531 FEI# 3003196781 *Hexachlorobenzene 54F[]R12 - SEA *BHC Shipper: Bing Han (Canada)
*Pentachloroaniline Enterprises. Ltd. *Tecnazene 210-7911 Alderbridge Way
*Pentachlorothioanisole Richmond B.C., Canada FEI# 3003196782

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Ginseng Bing Han Medical Factory Quintozene 3/13/2001 (Powdered) 81, Cherng Gong Street
*Pentachlorobenzene 211-9414883-5 Ell Jeun Village, Taiwan *Tetrachloroaniline
I290230/120531 FEI# 3003196781 *Hexachlorobenzene 54F[]R12 - SEA *BHC Shipper: Bing Han (Canada)
*Pentachloroaniline Enterprises. Ltd. *Tecnazene 210-7911 Alderbridge Way
*Pentachlorothioanisole Richmond B.C., Canada FEI# 3003196782

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