• Hua Lien’s 70%-owned subsidiary Pan-Caribbean Sugar suspended sales of its PCSC-branded sugar under a Jamaica regulator stop order dated April 18.
• Preliminary tests found metal fragments in some sugar samples; PCSC traced the issue to rust residue from conveying pipelines.
• Lab tests reported May 21 found no metal fragments in submitted samples; an independent Bureau of Standards test reported July 3 also found none.
• Jamaica’s National Compliance and Regulatory Authority said July 15 re-worked sugar stock can return to market under its supervision.
• PCSC is seeking full approvals to resume production and sales; a July 24 permit authorizes imports of 2,000 tonnes of brown sugar.

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