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Taiwan's
food scandals
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Biggest-ever food scare
began 2011 till present
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Taiwan |
poisonous for 20-30 years |
Biggest-ever food scare began 2011 till present ! |
● The Independent (UK), 2024-3-13: The cancer-causing Chinese food colouring that has sparked an inquest in Taiwan. Chili powder adulterated with ‘Sudan Red’ has flooded the markets of Taiwan. The dye has been classified as a Group 3 carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). The UK among other nations has banned the lipid-soluble "toxic substance" from being used in food products. Sudan Red was purchased by the Army Logistics Command's Non-staple Food Supply Center. msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-cancer-causing-chinese-food-colouring-that-has-sparked-an-inquest-in-taiwan/ar-BB1jOKwg
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● United Daily 聯合報 (Taiwan), 2024-3-30: food safety issues have exploded one after another. From clenbuterol(瘦肉精Ractopamine), Sudan Red (蘇丹紅) to red yeast rice (紅麴), the "politics in command" government has been slow to deal with the problem. They mostly were "shifting the blame" instead of "solving the problem", they were inactive after receiving and seeing poison-food reports, they lack of alertness, enthusiasm and specialty. udn.com/news/story/7338/7865997?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
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● You don't know if the milk is fresh or not !
♣ United Daily 聯合報 (Taiwan), 2024-5-16: Should the Taiwanese stores disclose whether a latte or dairy-containing food is using 'real' or 'fake' fresh milk? Since the government does not pay attention to the issue, The dairy industries follow and play word games to deceive customers. Some imported dairy products or milk are Ultra-high-temperature (UHT) pasteurization, but still are labeled "fresh milk" or "fresh raw milk", some shops use brick milk (including 5 star hotel restaurants, very expensive chain coffee shops, and convenience shops, etc) or stuffs from milk powder, however, the customers do not have the rights to know.
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United Daily
聯合報 (Taiwan),
2024-7-12:
Only 10% stores (high-end/high-price restaurants,
convenience
shops, etc)
discloses related info.; the
government ignores the issue.
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Food Renegade : UHT milk is more difficult to digest for many people than fresh
raw milk or
even vat-temp pasteurized milk.
♣ Quora: The problem with UHT milk is it alters the taste and Americans like their milk fresh and cold. UHT also degrades some of the nutrient value and the proteins degrade faster. quora.com/Why-does-the-US-not-have-UHT-milk
♣ Britannica: Ultra-high-temperature (UHT) pasteurization involves heating milk or cream to 138–150 °C (280–302 °F) for one or two seconds.
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● United Daily 聯合報 (Taiwan), 2024-3-14: Food safety and social safety in Taiwan are "jerry-building" with "land-mines" everywhere, because of (1) the gov. officials' incapacity and dereliction of duty - their policy is food company's "self-discipline" (2) border management system issue - once discovering offences of illegal goods, they return them instead of destroying goods and penalty/punishment of the company (3) the gov. ignores small companies.
● China Times (Taiwan), 2024-3-7: A series of food safety controversies have clearly shown that the government responsible for food safety control are lazy and passive. They not only allow problematic foods to flow into the market, but also refuse to admit their mistakes after making news. Now, even green chili powder has been found to contain Sudan III (蘇丹紅) . The public's confidence on Taiwan food safety has collapsed. chinatimes.com/opinion/20240307004244-262101?chdtv
● United Daily 聯合報 (Taiwan), 2024-3-8: Sudan III food safety risk expanded to the entire Taiwan, affecting food industry chain. This systematic event is the most serious food safety issue in recent years. Taiwan's government - The food and Drug Admin. took a negative attitude, resulting in illegal businessmen took advantage of the loophole to import a huge amount of Sudan III ... udn.com/news/story/121823/7816857?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub121823_pulldownmenu_v2
● United Daily 聯合報 (Taiwan), 2024-3-10: Taiwan's government found out Sudan III already penetrated into food chain in 2018, and announced this to the public, but now they change the phrase to classify Sudan III as Class 3 carcinogens. The premier stated Sudan III event has turned into individual cases earlier, but now he can not help but to admit this is a systematic issue. udn.com/news/story/7338/7820535?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
● United Daily (Taiwan), 2024-2-7: The government remains inactive dampening public confidence in food safety udn.com/news/story/7338/7759932?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7338_pulldownmenu_v2
● UDN 經濟日報 (Taiwan), 2024-2-28: Relevant food safety measures are obviously not in place. This Cimbuterol incident has once again exposed the lack of supporting domestic food safety measures and implementation capacity
● United Daily (Taiwan), 2024-2-24: Taiwanese government premier 陳建仁 dances around the question concerning Taiwan Sugar Corp.'s Ractopamine (瘦肉精) pork and Cimbuterol meat ; this "truthlessness" phenomenon has gradually become a major feature of the government - DPP lawmakers harbor government's mistakes and dirts. udn.com/news/story/7338/7788866?from=udn_ch2_menu_v2_main_cate brief
● Global Times, 2023-6-5 globaltimes.cn/page/202306/1291967.shtml: the first agreement under the so-called “Initiative on 21st Century Trade”- In terms of agricultural and livestock products, the so-called agreement does not mention any inspection and quarantine of agricultural and livestock products or food safety issues. Instead, it facilitates entry process, which means more US farm and livestock products and processed foods will be dumped on the island, which will further harm food safety, the Labor Party said in the statement. “Why does the DPP authorities dare not make this clear to the entire island?”
● DailyMail (UK), 2023-4-28: Young Australian student on his dream overseas exchange program is fighting for his life in Taiwan after eating street food laced with rat poison. He had been misdiagnosed in Taiwan with an immune disorder. Alex is at the Taipei Medical University Hospital ...The medical services in Taiwan don't currently have the right treatments or drugs to stabilise his condition, Alex's condition has grown worse and he needs to be flown to the Royal Prince Albert Hospital in Sydney via a specialised medical flight retrieval service. d
ailymail.co.uk/news/article-12023841/Toowoomba-student-exchange-Taiwan-fighting-life-eating-food-laced-rat-poison.html
● United Daily (Taiwan), 2023-10-6: When it comes to imported Ractopamine pig (pork), the government has been always giving vague phrases or just denied. Now the mysterious pork were eventually found - 150 thousands kg US pork were labeled as British or Canadian pork and were distributed to local restaurants and stalls, almost all of which were eaten by Taiwanese people already ... some pork were even processed and mixed with mutton for sale, the public trust on food safety policy is collapsed! udn.com/news/story/7338/7487885?from=udn_ch2_menu_v2_main_cate chinatimes.com/opinion/20231005004589-262101?chdtv
● United Daily (Taiwan), 2023-9-24: "Food Safety issues remain" (食安未解,民主停更) - Chicken eggs issue forces minister of Agriculture (農業部長陳吉仲) and president of Naif.org both to step down ...the most horrible thing is that the whistleblower has been threaten to shut his mouth up by harming his family members... udn.com/news/story/7338/7460993?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7338_pulldownmenu_v2
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United Daily (Taiwan), 2023-9-29: We don't see the judiciary cracking down black-heart foods, the prosecution and the investigation both are reduced to check political climate before taking legal action. (不見雷厲風行查黑心食品 檢調淪落到看政治風向辦案) vip.udn.com/vip/story/122367/7471373?from=udn-category● Global Times, 2022-9-17 (globaltimes.cn/page/202209/1275446.shtml):
DPP authority is sacrificing the people's interests for their political ends. the Taiwan authorities detected Caesium-137 in the batch of konjaku jelly powder since the island in February relaxed a decade-long ban on imports of "nuclear food" from Japan. The Taiwan authorities also said that they were negotiating with related merchants to return the batch of food or destroy it. This indicates two problems. First, the place of origin of some imported Japanese food may be faked to avoid being detected, which the authorities should keep alert about. Second, the authorities' frequency of detecting Japanese food is not high enough.
● New York Times, 2022-8-18: Taiwanese cuisine — layered, distinct, multiethnic ...has been shaped by many cultural forces, including the island's Indigenous tribes, long-established groups of Fujianese and Hakka people; Japanese ; Chinese immigrants in 1949+... nytimes.com/2022/08/16/dining/taiwanese-cuisine.html
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Global Times,
2022-2-13
(globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252141.shtml):
DPP sacrifices Taiwan people’s interests by lifting ban on
Japan‘nuclear food’ for political gain/ The
Japan Times said that island's leader, Tsai Ing-wen, prioritized Japan-related
food issues in trying to win Japan's support for Taiwan's entry into the
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
Ironically, local media cited expert analyses as saying that much of the leaked
radioactive material is still radioactive.
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67.7% believe DPP's radiation
inspection standards are not effective Source: Taiwan Yahoo news poll
conducted between February 8 and February 11 |
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the DPP actively paved the way for imports of the controversial pork to
appease the US. ...Head of Taiwan's health authority:...
as importing the pork could enhance Taiwan's "international status"...
● Scientific Reports Journal, Food Navigator Asia, 2-9-2021: Fish fraud findings: Almost 20% of fish in Taiwan found to be mislabelled - study. https://www.foodnavigator-asia.com/Article/2021/02/09/Fish-fraud-findings-Almost-20-of-fish-in-Taiwan-found-to-be-mislabelled-study Nature, 12-15-2020: The rates and consequences of seafood substitution frauds in Taiwan were elusive. Snapper, cod and surimi products are particularly vulnerable to fraudulent substitutions. The high abundance of Pseudomonas in tilapia sashimi mislabeled as snapper unveils a potential health issue pertaining to the consumption of raw mislabeled seafood. Seafood substitution is a fraud in which the fish is sold by the name of a different, often more expensive fish. modern seafood products often appear in the form of fish pieces, filets or even ready-to-eat meals instead of whole fishes. The food processing technologies can also change the original color and luster of the meat. The lack of identifiable features poses challenges in verifying label information by the look, touch and feel of the products https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79070-y
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● Financial Times, 8-28-2020: Taiwan eventually eases restrictions on US pork and beef imports. Must bear in mind you may eat beef and pork with controversial Ractopamine from 2021 on, because the cost of local meat is much more expensive.
★ Reuters , 11-23-2020:
"Taiwanese pigs don't eat ractopamine and yet you are asking Taiwanese people to?" https://news.yahoo.com/thousands-join-annual-taiwan-protest-072836916.html★ Associated Press, 11-23-2020:
The drug is banned by the European Union, but is legal in the United States... “I feel these days many who do business are not ethical. If they mix the U.S. pork with Taiwan pork and then sell it to us average consumers, we as individuals have no way to know the source of the pork.” https://apnews.com/article/global-trade-tsai-ing-wen-trade-agreements-taiwan-food-safety-cf76e2db33063462632bfd383e0b7dbf
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The China Times (12-14-2015):The legislative Yuan trickily made some law to
cover big financial groups, food scare already turned into a terrorist in
Taiwan...
Former supreme-court grand justice Chen
(城仲模)
expressed most Taiwanese don't trust the
judicial system.
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★ The Liberty Times - Weekender 9.18.2015
time | news events | details |
April 2012, Oct. 2013 | plumping agent with Aluminum(膨鬆劑加鋁) | By using plumping agent with Aluminum, donuts and Chinese steamed bun, etc will plump quicker and have better appearance for selling, but eating excessively may causes brain disease. (烘焙業在製作饅頭與甜甜圈過程中,添加含鋁膨鬆劑,使之迅速膨脹,且賣相佳,但過量可能導致腦部疾病) |
Jan. 2013 | fake rice vermicelli(假米粉) | Taiwanese business including some in Sin-Chu, the major city producing rice vermicelli, replaced or mixed pure rice vermicelli by corn starch to decrease the cost and selling price. (業者為壓低成本與售價,以玉米澱粉混充純米米粉,此包括"米粉重鎮"新竹) |
May 2013 | toxic starch(毒澱粉) | Industrial adhesives Maleic Acid was mixed into regular starch by businesses to make chewy starch foods or products. (為製作口感Q彈的澱粉產品,業者在一般澱粉中,混入工業用黏著劑順丁烯二酸酐) |
Aug. 2013 | Top Pot Bakery used essence(胖達人香精) | Top Pot has been flaunting itself a non-addictive bakery, but was reported using a number of addictives - including flavouring essence. (胖達人強調無添加的香氣麵包,卻被踢爆使用多種食品添加物) |
Feb. 2014 | Industrial bleaching agent to whiten beam sprouts (工業漂白劑漂白豆芽) | Using Industrial bleaching agent to whiten beam sprouts for better appearance and better selling. (台南查獲業者使用工業漂白劑、連二亞硫酸鈉漂白豆芽,使賣相更佳) |
March 2015 | Illegally added Sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate dihydrate (CH3NaO3S) into Yun cake (潤餅違法添吊白塊) | Long time using Illegal addictive Sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate dihydrate (CH3NaO3S) into Yun cake (lumpia) for chewy taste. (有業者長期使用被禁用的「吊白塊」使潤餅吃時起來有彈性且不易破) |
April 2015 | Gypsum of pharmaceutic were added to Black-puddings(藥用石膏混入米血) | For better taste and solidification, some Black-puddings using Gypsum of pharmaceutic as addictives. (屏東米血工廠為凝固產品且提升口感,使用跌打損傷藥用石膏為添加物) |
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coloring agent were used as make-up or feeds on Salmon, soaking in phosphatic water to enlarger oysters, formaldehyde (HCHO) to extend oysters expiration, borax(硼砂) to whiten (or avoid dark / black color) oysters ...in some evil-hearted businesses, details pls. ref. to the Liberty Times.◎