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An investigation from the Taichung City Government’s food and drug safety office has found that soybean cooking oil contaminated with a carcinogen has spread through the nation’s supply chains, reaching a total of 224 businesses. They ranged from star-rated hotels to coffee chain brands to food manufacturers. Taiwan’s latest food safety crisis began when it was found earlier that Central Union Oil supplied 1,300 tons of soybean cooking oil contaminated with the carcinogen benzo(a) pyrene at four times the legal limit to three major Taiwanese wholesalers – Taisun, Fwusow Industry and Fopco. Let’s hear more.

Liu Ming-che
Spokesperson for food company
Adhering to the highest standards, our company is taking the precautionary measure of removing these products from store shelves. Furthermore, we have sealed all current factory inventory and will determine our next steps once the test results are available.

Tseng Tzu-Chan
Director, Taichung City Health Bureau
According to our current data, as of last night, Fopco had recalled a total of 54kg, and Fwusow had recalled a total of 5,693kg, for a total of 5,747kg. We have stipulated that all products must be completely removed from shelves by 12 p.m. today. If they are not removed, we can impose heavy fines under Article 7 of the Food Safety Act, up to a maximum of NT$3 million.

Responding to the case, DPP Legislator Lin Shu-fen posted on Facebook that Central Union Oil’s initial self-inspections of the batch in question had all passed. The discovery of excessive benzo(a) pyrene levels was actually made by a downstream manufacturer conducting its own testing. After detecting abnormal data, the downstream firm notified Central Union Oil, which then re-inspected the oil and confirmed the contamination. Lin argues that the Ministry of Health and Welfare must review whether the current food safety system’s heavy reliance on upstream suppliers’ self-inspections has failed.

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