2025-07-15
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is notifying Canadian producers and exporters of apple juice products (including apple cider) and apple juice for production of apple juice products (including apple cider) of enhanced monitoring by Japan. Effective July 1, 2025, Japan implemented an enhanced monitoring program to sample and test 30% of all shipments of these products from Canada for the presence of patulin.
This program was initiated by Japan due to the detection of excess patulin in a single shipment of apple cider from Canada. The CFIA is following up on the non-compliant shipment identified by Japan.
Both Canada and Japan have a maximum allowable level of patulin in these products of 0.05 ppm. If an additional non-compliance is identified by Japan in either apple juice products (including apple cider) or apple juice for production of apple juice products (including apple cider) that are exported from Canada, Japan will increase its monitoring to 100% of all imported products in this category.