Food Safety Recall round-up 26 October - 2 November 2017
Pesticides in basmati rice
Lithuania: Basmati rice imported from India has been prevented from being put on the market due to pesticide residues.
Basmati rice with batch number CLS/1718 /17 with dates up to 2019-07 are involved.
Kauno VMVT inspectors found carbendazim (0.040 mg/kg), methamidophos (0.029 mg/kg) and thiamethoxam (0.11 mg/kg) which exceeded the maximum tolerated levels (0.01 mg/kg).