The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare executed "Inspection instruction" based on Food Sanitation Law on January 24 because it had detected kind "Aflatoxin" of fungal toxin that had carcinogenicity from corn from Australia.
When the Nagoya quarantine station executed the monitor inspection of the imported corn from Australia, the quarantine station detected the positive reaction of the aflatoxin from the cone.
This ministry directed TOYOTA TSUSHO CORPORATION that imported corn abandonment or the reshipment, and stepped up surveillance about the import of corn from Australia.
The inspection instruction is a system where the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare orders the import trader the inspection whenever food with high possibility of the violation is imported, and the import and the circulation of food that doesn't stand the test are not admitted.