Taiwanese health officials have rejected a 6,400-kilogramme shipment of live crabs from mainland China, citing toxins in the popular seafood — the first time that island authorities have identified a food-security issue with the crabs in the past two years.
The Food and Drug Administration denied entry to a batch of Chinese mitten crabs — commonly known as Shanghai hairy crabs — over what it described in a statement on Tuesday as excess levels of dioxins and dioxin-like chemicals.
