Taiwan
Since Sept. 4, the Taiwanese authorities have been struggling to
control a food scare caused by 645 tons of adulterated cooking oil produced by
the Chang Guann Company and distributed to more than 1,200 restaurants, schools
and food processors. As of Monday, health authorities had identified a wide
array of more than 1,300 food products tainted by the oil, including instant
noodles, snacks, cakes, dumplings, bread, canned pork, meat paste and glutinous
rice. Taiwan
Chang
Guann has been buying what’s known as “gutter oil” — recycled oil from
restaurant waste and animal byproducts — from an illegal factory and mixing it
with lard to make its Chuan Tung cooking oil. Though the illegal factory had
been in business for more than a decade, the authorities had failed to detect
what it was up to. Chang Guann had also managed to delude inspectors. Recycled
gutter oil can contain carcinogens. No case of illness has been reported so
far. Chang Guann was fined a trifling $1.67 million for its illegal sales.
The
investigation also revealed that Chang Guann had been importing lard from Hong
Kong that was intended for industrial purposes but falsely listed by the Hong Kong company as fit for human consumption.
The
Ministry of Health and Welfare is now working to set up a system to monitor
about 100 oil manufacturers and 500 importers in Taiwan
The scare follows a series of
other food scandals last year; in one case, a factory owner was sentenced to 16
years in prison for adding a banned coloring agent, copper chlorophyllin, to
olive oil. The Taiwanese authorities need to be doing more than reacting to
food-safety problems on an ad hoc basis to ensure that what people eat is safe.
Structure of the
Lead：
WHO- the Taiwanese authorities
WHEN- Sept. 4
WHAT- have been struggling to control a food
scare caused by 645 tons of adulterated cooking oil produced by the Chang Guann
Company and distributed to more than 1,200 restaurants, schools and food
processors.
WHY- As of Monday, health authorities had
identified a wide array of more than 1,300 food products tainted by the oil,
including instant noodles, snacks, cakes, dumplings, bread, canned pork, meat
paste and glutinous rice.
WHERE-not given
HOW-not given
Keywords：
1. Gutter oil：地溝油
2. adulterated ：摻假
3. food-safety ：食品安全
4. waste：廢棄物
5. lard：豬油
6. delude ：騙
7. carcinogens ：致癌物
8. scare ：恐慌
9. copper chlorophyllin：葉綠素銅
10. olive oil ：橄欖油
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回覆刪除I think the company of this event should be responsible for dealing with . And the goverment must take it seriously.
回覆刪除The government should manage and control it more strictly.
回覆刪除i really cannot understand why they wanted to earn dirty money.
回覆刪除Are they not afraid of eating Gutter oil made by themselves?
The government should manage and control it more strictly.
do not let more and more people to be in panic.