●
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
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar
●
●
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
●
●
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.udn.com/news/story/121823/7967177?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub121823_pulldownmenu_v2
♣
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.
udn.com/news/story/121823/8090039?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub121823_pulldownmenu_v2
♣
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.
●
●
United Daily
聯合報 (Taiwan), 2024-8-20:
Schoolboys' fresh milk become
extended shelf life milk (länger haltbare Milch)
(學童「班班喝鮮乳」變「班班喝保久乳」)
udn.com/news/story/121823/8172668?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub121823_pulldownmenu_v2
●
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
(Sudan Red '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
●●
●Food Safety Magazine Editorial, 2024-6-3: Taiwan Food and Drug
Authority (TFDA) has implemented new requirements for fishery products for human
consumption imported into Taiwan.
●
the U.S. Trade Representative's Office issued its 2024 report on foreign trade
barriersustr.gov/sites/default/files/2024%20NTE%20Report.pdf
● The China Times
(中時),
2024-4-2
The
Taiwan authorities have rejected bids from U.S. rice exporters under its
country specific quota (CSQ) regime. Taiwan's
ceiling price mechanism is not made public, raising concerns that prices
are arbitrarily set lower than the levels bid by U.S. exporters, causing
the tenders to fail. ......
Taiwan implemented country of origin labeling requirements for a range
of pork products, including processed pork products.
... simultaneously implementing
maximum residue limits (MRLs) for ractopamine in imported pork, inaccurately
implied that there is a food safety concern with U.S. pork products, including
pork produced with ractopamine.
Taiwan has not addressed other longstanding barriers to U.S. beef
products. Claiming BSE concerns, Taiwan continues to ban imports of
certain U.S. beef products (e.g., ground beef) even
... Taiwan imposes onerous port-of entry inspection procedures
that are not science-based on certain U.S. beef offal products. Taiwan
continues to restrict the importation of bovine blood products for
animal consumption and bulk shipments of tallow from the United States,
citing concerns related to BSE.
Taiwan also implemented MRLs for
ractopamine in imported pork kidney and other edible parts (e.g., offal other
than kidney and liver) that are more restrictive than the Codex MRLs. The United
States is concerned that Taiwan’s MRLs for imported pork kidney and other edible
parts do not reflect consumption exposure. The United States is also concerned
that Taiwan’s method of testing for ractopamine residue is not aligned with
methods of analysis for ractopamine recommended by Codex, and could provide
inaccurate results...
If the United States insists Taiwanese children
eating those food with safety concerns, will the ruling party government, which
has always been obedient to the Big Brother, dare to say No to the U.S. ?
pic.: No.1 "comment Taiwan food" on Yahoo (Taiwan),
2024-3-30, 2024-3-8, 2024-2-24, 2023-10-6, 2023-8-25, 2023-2-1, 2022-9-17; No.2 at 2023-6-25
pic.: No.1 "comment Taiwan food" on Yahoo (USA),
2024-3-8, 2019-10-25, No.1 on MetaGER.de
(Europe) , 10-25-2019, No.2 at 2024-3-8。
●
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
classifySudanIII
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 dampeningpublic confidence
in food safetyudn.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
●
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
●
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
●
DailyMail (UK),
2023-4-28: Young Australian student
on his dream overseas exchange program is fighting for his life in Taiwan after
eating 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.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12023841/Toowoomba-student-exchange-Taiwan-fighting-life-eating-food-laced-rat-poison.html
●Nature,
2023-6-22: Despite concerns from several nations
and international groups, Japan is pressing ahead with plans to release water
contaminated by the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
into the Pacific Ocean; continuing for the next 30
years
; it will be safe for ocean
health and human health?” asks marine biologist at the University of Hawaii.
“The answer is ‘no’.”“If you eat something that’s radioactively contaminated
with β-emitters, your cells inside are being exposed.”...concerned
the tritium could concentrate in the food web as larger organisms eat smaller
contaminated ones.
●New
York Times,
brief, 2023-9-1: Scientists
have said that Japan's release of water would have a
very low effect on human health or the environment.
●
Global Times, 2023-8-24 :
Not only the Chinese, but also Koreans and other Asians will most likely not eat
tuna and salmon imported from Japan anymore.globaltimes.cn/page/202308/1296906.shtml
●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.
● China
Times (中時),
2023-6-22 editorial : Facing
Japan, Taiwan's ruling DPP always goes down on its knees, putting national
dignity and national interest behind. Greenpeace
pointed out that the Fukushima nuclear sewage contains more types of radioactive
substances with higher radioactivity than those sewage produced by general
nuclear power plants。chinatimes.com/opinion/20230623002452-262101?chdtv
●United Daily (台灣
聯合報)
, 2023-9-3 :
Chicken eggs imported from Brasil by
「超思」contain
Florfenicol,
FF
0.021ppm、Florfenicol
amine
0.008ppmudn.com/news/story/6656/7412884?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub6656_pulldownmenu_v2PS:
China Times, 2023-9-5: chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20230905004866-260407?chdtv
●United Daily (台灣
聯合報)
,
2023-6-15 :
imported US pork 'disappear',
the commentators question mislabeling.
udn.com/news/story/7338/7236080?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
●
United Daily (經濟日報社論),
editorial, 2023-2-1:Food safety is an anxious issue for Taiwanese
peopleudn.com/news/story/7338/6940503?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7338_pulldownmenu_v2
DPP
authority is sacrificing the people's interests for their
political ends.the
Taiwan authorities detected Caesium-137 in the batch of
konjaku jelly powdersince 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
●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.
●
72% oppose lifting the ban
67.7% believe DPP's radiation
inspection standards are not effective
in regulating the "nuclear food"
Source: Taiwan Yahoo news poll
conducted between February 8 and February 11
●
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"...
●Global Times,
2022-2-18
(globaltimes.cn/page/202202/1252600.shtml)
:
Taiwan residents oppose as
DPP lifts bans on eggs from avian flu-hit Japan. A expert at Minnan Normal
University: relaxing Japan egg imports at the cost of people's safety is a
strategic move of the DPP to reinforce ties with Japan, who would love to use
Taiwan as a pawn to contain the mainland. Mainland's agricultural can help
Taiwan to solve its problems, just small potatoes. But DPP has ruled out working
with the Chinese mainland,...Taiwan is also facing a shortage of duck meat,
rising oil prices and rising raw material prices.
●SeaFoodSource,
2022-5-12: Calls grow for more
transparency in Taiwan's seafood sector
/ Greenpeace is continuing to criticize
Taiwan's fishing industry -
the migrant fishers were beaten and forced to work up to 20 hours a
day. a migrant fisher was struck on the head,
collapsed, and later died.some of the crew’s
clothes were thrown into the ocean despite cold temperatures, and some Muslim
workers were forced to eat pork to survive despite it being forbidden by their
religion... to ensure its policies are in
compliance with ILO's Work in Fishing Convention (C-188), which unfortunately
has not been enforced by Taiwan.
seafoodsource.com/news/environment-sustainability/calls-grow-for-more-transparency-in-taiwan-s-seafood-sector-as-da-wang-crew-prosecuted
●Asahi,
2022-2-8:
Taiwan to relax Japan nuclear disaster-related food import
ban. Taiwan has banned imports of food products
from five prefectures in Japan following a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear
plant that was triggered by a huge earthquake and tsunami.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14543355
●China Times,
editorial, 2021-4-25
"Ractopamine
pig mystery"
/ Taiwan has
imported
pork and pig offal in
total
1800 ton from the US since Jan. 2021,
however, in all the markets, there's no
any
pork and pig offal marked e
"imported from USA". Another
mysterious thing is
Agriculture government (Council
of Agriculture) says 70% of them were
already used for meat processing, but
Health government (Ministry
Health & welfare)
says 70% of them were
still in the
refrigerating chamber.chinatimes.com/opinion/20210424003140-262101?chdtv
●
●
United Daily (Economy
Daily News, Taiwan)
, editorial, 1-17-2021: Taiwan imported US beef
(aged 30+ months), US pig
offal and pork
with
controversial Ractopamine since Jan.
2021, it's not safe enough for customers because (1)
A
new branding initiative (Taiwan pork logo) that helps customers
distinguish whether shops and restaurants are using predominantly local
or imported pork was officially launched, however, it's very easy for
businessmen to have that logo (2)
Marking "US pork" in restaurants and
shops is not
arbitrary for political factor.
L.A. Times, 11-22-2020:
thousands march in Taiwan streets against US pork imports, a giant
inflatable pig (slogan: Betraying pig farmers) flown above the crowd.
www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-22/thousands-march-in-taiwan-streets-against-us-pork-imports
Guardian UK, 11-27-2020: Parliamentarians in Taiwan have
thrown pig guts at each other before coming to blows over plans to allow
US meat imports. www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/27/taiwan-politicians-throw-pig-guts-meat-row
UDN 11-23-20: gov. refuses "import from US" mark and allows US pork on
campus ( to smooth trade relations with the Trump adm.)
★
Brookings,
2021-7-12: if Taiwan voters reverse Tsai’s pledge to open Taiwan’s market to
the same pork products that American citizens eat... would seal shut the door to anything more than incremental
progress on U.S.-Taiwan trade relations...other major economies would follow suit.
brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/07/12/taiwan-voters-should-look-before-they-leap-on-pork-referendum/
●
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
○
●
Financial Times (UK),
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 (banned by
150+ countries) from 2021 on, 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
○
●
Associated Press,
11-23-2020
says Taiwanese
business may not be ethical ... mix the
U.S. pork ( Ractopamine
pork
) with Taiwan pork
●
Apple Daily, editorial, 1-5-2021:
chaos!
Taiwanese are not confident in gov.
pork control strategy
―
"Taiwan pork only"
seal,
e.g.,
famous Taiwan cuisine restaurant "
Formosa Chang
(鬍鬚張)"
is questioned to mark the official seal
but partly use foreign pork.
●
CTV, 1-12-2021: 18
star-rated tourist hotel restaurants
were found to be
irregular/illegal
in
expired
ingredients or other
food-safety issues,
including
many 5
star hotels e.g., Ambassador Hotel,
Regent Taipei's晶泉丰旅,日月行館
●
《
United
Daily 》,
11-14-2020 ,
editorial: Taiwan's
Executive
Yuan
(prime ministry)
is disable on issues
e.g., food safety, social security,
......
udn.com/news/story/7338/5014020?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
● 83%
of Taiwan's Michelin 2~3
star
restaurants,
and 33% of Taiwan's Michelin star
restaurants, failed to pass
sanitary/health inspection (kitchen things/equipment
not clean, food materials on the floor, without staffs' health examination proof
) , but they passed second inspection, such as 3 star restaurant
Le Palais, 2 star restaurants RAW、態芮-Tairroir、祥雲龍吟( RyuGin
Taipei
)、
鮨天本(Sushi Amamoto).
ref. to Liberty Times, 3-30-2020, Apple Daily 3-31-2020.
Chang Gung Mem. Hospital
Toxicology expert professor
Yen
Tzung-Hai M.D. (顏宗海,
Doctor, Univ. of London ): Minimize the times of dining out to protect your
health ! ( ref. to book <食品不安全的年代如何自保>("how to
survive in this bad food-security time",
April '16))
○
● Even Taiwan's Michelin 3
star winner
Le Palais
was found
snacks containing
Hydrogen peroxide
(過氧化氫) and
Benzoic acid
(苯甲酸),
besides, many
tourism hotels /
5 star hotels were found food
hygiene not up to standard, e.g., 5 star hotels used expired
no-good
ingredients, such as
HsinChu and Taipei's Ambassador Hotel, The
Grand Hotel, Regent Formosa, and so on, reported by
CTV evening news, BCC ,
LTN
(12-19-2019)
https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/3014179
.
●United
Daily 1-20-2020:
Taipei
mayor Ko: Our night markets and markets are too dirty !
●
Liberty Times ,
1-6-2019 : Taipei City Hall's "Model Night Markets" project,
aims at "
Japanese tourists are willing to sit down to eat "，however,
quite many stalls
opposed, in that elevating the hygienic level and class increases their running
costs...
○
●
The United Daily (聯合報),
5-29-2019 "舌尖上的化學" special report
◆
currently, Taiwan's "clean label" is
about 6~10%
◆
each person in each year ate addictives
more than 3 kg
◆ the
key to influence customers' choice 1).
64.2%: natural ? 2). 55.5%:
any artificial addictives?
3). 38.2% low/free sugar, salt,
grease(oil) 4). 28.3%
no any addictives 5). 16.7%
orgnic? ...
○
● The China Times (中國時報), 2-28-2019,
opinion (editorial) questions Taiwan officials are trying
very hard to hide the
epidemic state
of Marek's virus in chicken eggs ...
● The Apple Daily (蘋果日報), 2-22-2019: Food safety is still Taiwanese most
concern issue since Melamine event of 2008, Fipronil
residue in eggs and pesticide residue in vegetables recently
drew attentions again. (brief) / by legislator & National
Taiwan Univ. professor
吳焜裕
○
●
Jiang So-San M.D.
(江守山,
12-2018,
<早安健康 - 名醫餐桌>
) :
「Food
safety issue
matters
!」"generally
speaking, what we eat nowadays are "very dirty".
Minimize the times of eating/dining out to
control poison exposure to be within a margin of
safety (控制毒物暴露量在一定程度之內)，Taiwan
ranks world No.1 in usage of pesticides per unit of land area (單位土地面積使用農藥)，according
to a study by National Yang-Ming University, 98% of urine samples randomly chosen from kids in
Taipei, Taiwan, contain pesticide,
the Plasticizer of dust in our
houses as well as pregnant women's urine both rank world No.1.
Besides, there're really too much
addictives inside our food
。
More than most of Taiwan's restaurants currently use artificial chemical soy
sauce(化學水解醬油)，which
inevitably produces chemical 3-MCPD
(單氯丙二醇) and may
results in tongue cancer,
kidney cancer, lliver cancer,
we
all ate them too much already !
Taiwanese over-value
economic price, therefore we got too many terrible stuffs in home or in our
body.
○
● The United Daily (聯合報),
12-4-2018 opinion (editorial)
: food safety issues never end (未曾間斷的食安事件) ...
● The China Times (中國時報), 10-20-2018
opinion (editorial) https://opinion.chinatimes.com/20181019003889-262101
○
Taiwan's food safety failed again and again,
Dioxin, Fipronil poison-eggs in last year, Nicarbazin illegal drug residue event
in this year. Average citizens are so
poor as to eat eggs as their nutrition source, however, which is so risky!
Taiwan should feel shame at all these？
Europe was very cautious about Fipronil event, in contrast, Taiwan did
nothing about it. Even worse, Taiwan officials hide
Nicarbazin issue from Taiwanese people to baby related business.
Looking back each food scare in all these years, the
government's "action through inaction" (「無為而治」)
avoids taking firm action on food scandal. In July 2018, the officials not
only publicize no information to consumers, but also indulge business to
retrieve problematic eggs and then resell them as promotion goods.
Taiwan's food safety slogan look great, but has null effect.
Why do high-ranking officials always fudge Taiwanese people's
only, and humblest request ？?
(brief)
○
pic.:
Taiwanese officials hide
Nicarbazin
illegal drug residue from consumers,
indulged business to retrieve problematic eggs, and then resell them as
promotion goods
● The China Times, 5-21-2018 : Taiwan
food safety became nothing but a slogan for the government's relaxation of
pesticide residue standards in these 2 years, obviously, Taiwan adm. thinks
Taiwanese people can "resist" pesticide better than Americans, Europeans and
Japanese can do. The United Daily, 5-21-2018: Taiwan government
relaxed standards of pesticides to 200+ different kinds of agricultural goods,
farm products in 2017, extra 29 items were added in 2018. TVBS
9-12-2017 : Scholar (中興univ.曾德賜) expressed the amount ( per hectare ) of
application of pesticide in Taiwan was ranked world No.1 according to India's
study, the US report showed about 30% of that are fake pesticides (偽農藥).
(news.tvbs.com.tw/fun/769011)
The United daily 12-26-2012,
ETtoday news 1-23-2013: The amount ( per hectare ) of
application of pesticide in Taiwan was 5 times the average amount of that used
in the entire world. About 30% used in Taiwan are "fake pesticide" (偽農藥).
Some reports on the net (e.g., Life.tw 2-4-2017) : "fake pesticide" (特調農藥) is
mixture of different kinds of pesticides so that each of them won't exceed the
legal standard. (brief).
●
Chang Gung Mem. Hospital professor Yen Tzung-Hai M.D. (顏宗海,
Doctor, Univ. of London ): Minimize the times of dining out to protect your
health ! ( ref. to book <食品不安全的年代如何自保>("how to
survive in this bad food-security time",
April 2016))
○
●
MicroPlastics were found in 44% tap
water samples, medical circle believes it's a very serious environmental
pollution, since something bad, e.g., Dioxin, Bisphenol A (BPA), PAHs, heavy
metal elements, may be brought into food chain, and then are/were accumulated in
human body...... we better use purified water by RO machine for safety.
Furthermore, mussels, oysters, clams
(扇貝與蛤)
were also found some microplastics...... brief - headlines of Apple
Daily, United Daily, 9-26-2018.
◆
Apple Daily,
9-6-2018: serious pollutions in many locations around Taiwan, Phenol may
harm human health ...
○
●
Apple Daily, 6-6-2018 :
Taiwan's
system
("雙證管制
double check
by 2
certificates")
to control
Japanese
high-radiation-area foods is failed, according to Apple Daily's random
check-up. ps
-
Apple Daily
11-20-2015 :
food
imported
from Japan
high-radiation
area were
hidden or
covered / NTU professor 林鈺雄.
○
●
Apple Daily, 4-25-2018 : Taiwan's food
safety systems failed for gov. lab's intentionally throwing away test samples
immediately after the tests.
●
台視新聞 (TTV) 10-25-2018
12:23pm : Imported crabs (大閘蟹) found to contain excessive
level (6 times) of Dioxins perhaps were purchased (or used) by star-rated
hotels of Taiwan already.
○
United Daily News , 10-25-2018: Abbott
received more than 600 complaints about six items of its Ensure having "結塊"
issues in upper half year, but reported nothing to governmental system
("非預期反應通報系統"). It's a loophole of food safety. (brief)
○
●
Apple Daily, 11-20-2017 : Almost all
world countries are more and more strict with food safety, only Taiwan is more
and more relaxed in legislating for food safety. In this way, how
can Taiwan have a reputation on "fine food kingdom" ?
(breif)
/
by 邱致穎, chair, and
teacher of food science, TungHai University. ●
UDN (
medical
edition,
3-31-2018) :
"food safety
problems
happened
again and
again, I
prefer to
eat at home"
(食安連環爆
我在家吃便當)
○
●
The limit-amount
(ppm,
part per million)
of
pesticide
residue are restricted to in Taiwan is 1000 times that in Europe,
The "category 4" "toxic" chemical materials ("毒性"化學物質)
containing plasticisers
is renamed as "Concerned" chemical material("關注化學物質")
/ The China Times, Opinion <短評 "Taiwan is more toxic than
before>, 4-21-2017
(rename-policy paused/ LTN 4-22-2017)
◆
●
Taiwan administration's
Dioxin ("poison of the century") control system crashed completely / FTV
news 4-22-2017 ; FTV news, 5-18-2017: 13
ingredients / materials expired in a 5 star hotel in Taiwan; CTI TV news
(5-17-2017, 19:33): What can we eat in Taiwan? people are uneasy for
food here...
◆
● Pollution in
recent 12 yrs never end, Dioxin inside many people already over the
limit probably, TW government has never done source-control, never stop
contaminants (pollutant, e.g., plastic, inks from industry, fly-ash from
incinerator, etc) going to our environment
/ Apple Daily, head-page,
4-22-2017
●
●
Apple Daily News
(蘋果日報)8-28-2015, A2 Prime News Edition
The incidence rate of Taiwanese
people suffering colon/rectal cancer was ranked world No.1 (2nd is Korea, 3rd
Slovakia) ,
Taipei Medical University Hospital's director of surgeons expressed Taiwan's
food scandals constantly happened in recent years, many black-heart tainted
foods containing
Carcinogen
(cancer producer) is a factor causing high incidence rate.
◆
●
TTV (台視 2-11-2017 12:24pm) news reports: People dining out
should be carefulnot to eat food containing
Borax, Sodium borate(硼砂),fluorescent brightener(螢光增白劑),
plasticisers (朔化劑), Rongalite (Sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate dihydrate吊白塊 )...
deep-fried foods, plastic container,
and pesticide residue
may cause cancer.
◆
● Apple Daily
11-20-2015: Taiwan food scandals is still
flourishing and still in the ascendant, even the law was
amended to increase punishment, major events include
poisonous (Methyl yellow,
chemical 二甲基黃 illegally added)
dried bean curd, chemical-soak kelp, sea tangle, pepper
powders with industrial-used Magnesium carbonate (工業級碳酸鎂), and Unagi Kabayaki
eels with Malachite
green, tea drink with DDT residue,
food scraps and kitchen waste entered food market
supply chain, besides, food imported from Japan high-radiation area were hidden
or covered / NTU professor 林鈺雄. Furthermore,
The Liberty Times (9-4-2016): black-heart sauce entered night market, and
street-front shops
―
small-eat
shops, breakfast shops ... in Northern Taiwan for 1 year already.
●Taiwan
food safety system has loopholes - catering business never mark food with allergen -
which may cause cardiovascular disease, shock, Urticaria, cough, skin redness &
swelling, etc. Those food may have allergen include shrimp, crab,
fish, octopus, squid, egg, milk, nuts, wheat, beans, kiwit, mango, etc.
Taiwanese prevalence ratio is about 10.16% population (Liberty Times, 7-25-2016)
◆
●Taiwanese government
never does some soul searching and corrects the wrong, according to
Business Weekly (No. 1436, June 2015), "It's weirdo !!, Taiwanese
government's food-safety check only focuses on 3 dried products - dried daylily, dried
radish, and preserved fruits (snacks)", National Taiwan University professor Wu K.Y. comments
it as "Completely evading the crucial point", "those 3 items are very
low risky products", and "Taiwan's food safety is nothing but a
slogan (台灣食安只有口號-apple daily
3-28-2015
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/20150328/582381/)".
◆
●
Major world media like
The New York Times and The Economist (11.29.2014)
comment a series of food safety scandals is one of few main factors causing the
KMT, Taiwan's ruling party, has suffered one of its worst electoral defeats
since Chiang Kai-shek and his forces fled to the island at the end of Chinese
civil war in 1949.
The New York Times (9.8.2014):
the new scandal (Taiwan food-safety scare) shows that there is
still not enough being done to eliminate lawbreaking production
lines.
TIME
( 9.8.2014): Gutter Oil' Scandal Raises
Food-Safety Fears Once Again in Greater China.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
(9.8.2014):
Tainted Lard: China's Latest Food-Safety Scare Comes From Taiwan.
BBC
news (Nov. 19, 2013): A series of food
safety scandals
in Taiwan has hurt consumer confidence, and now there are worries
they could dent the island's economic growth and damage tourism. United
Daily News (headline news, Dec. 31, 2013): "food scare" ranks
number 1
news of 2013 in Taiwan. The Economist (UK)commented : Taiwan's former reputation as
a reliable and safe food manufacturing country has been
damaged... The China Times (Taiwan,
Nov. 30, 2013)
states black-heart food, risks and traps are everywhere, and
comments Taiwan government is short of will-power, ability, and
resolution to combat illegal targets, high ranking officials are
afraid of political responsibility and damaging export & business.
●
◎
●
pic. above:
Feed-animal oil for humans ?
Public anger, Taiwan's Judiciary died
already / the China Times, 11-28-2015. The darkest day in Taiwan food
safety history / the Liberty Times, 11-28-2015.
●
pic. above: 90.12% Taiwanese don't agree the trial decision: Tinghsin
int'l group<頂新>
selling processed feed-animal oil was acquitted of the charge
/ head-page of Apple Daily, 11-28-2015
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.
The Liberty Times (11-30-2015): Food safety still is a decisive factor to win
presidential election (headline). Taipei mayor Ko comments food-safety is
a decisive factor for KMT to loss election in 2014, most likely in 2016 too.
◎
★
★
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)
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)
●
others like
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.
★
★
The Liberty Times
自由時報
10.27.2016
/ 97% of soybeans that Taiwan
imported is G.M. (genetic modified基改) soybeans
★
★
The
China Times
6.23.2013
Taiwan imports
pigs' food for human kinds
in Taiwan
90% of soybeans that Taiwan imported is G.M. (genetic modified) soybeans, which
contains the herbicide may be carcinogenic to human beings, and is prohibited by
Europe Union and Japan, etc, in those places G.M. soybeans are usually for
feeding pigs.
★
★
The Apple Daily "Food safety
crisis is terrorists attack too" 11.19.2015
(b"食安危機也是一種恐怖攻擊"by Chang S.Y. 張勝源)
The percentage of pesticides residue in a random
food-safety check in major supermarkets (Costco, RT-mart, Carrefo, Welcome, 松青,
愛買 ) recently is up to 69%, some containing some hyper-toxic (劇毒)
pesticides (also in head-line head-page of the Liberty Times, 11-13-2015).
They also check some stores advertising their stuffs nature and found 5~10
different kinds of pesticides residue.
★
★
The Apple Daily "Why food crime
never stop?" 11.20.2015
("食品犯罪為何前撲後繼", by NTU law school professor Lin 林鈺雄)
.... Taiwan's law system (confiscate
illegal gains) is so behind, no wonder we always
worry our food safety so much that can't sleep well ...
★
★
Food scandal again
Illegal import of banned (suspiciously polluted) food products to Taiwan from
five prefectures in Japan (included in 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant
incident) prohibited by Taiwanese authorities.
◎ Taipei Times, 3-26-2015: Taiwan review Fukushima food ban
under Japan's pressure. United Daily, 7-22-2015: Taiwan
plans to lift food ban for 4 out of 5 Japanese nuclear-polluted cities next
week.
◎ Apple Daily 3-26-2015: already
imported 4 yrs, Medical experiments were made on
Taiwanese human beings as if they were guinea pigs. (輸台4年"拿人民當實驗")
◎ Liberty Times 3-25-2015:
Taiwan's member of the Legislative Yuan/ parliament: It's
a premeditated murder, a willful murder!!
◎
★
●
The New York times 9.8.2014:
The authorities in Taiwan are scrambling to
control a tainted-cooking-oil scandal that has affected hundreds of
manufacturers and raised fears about health risks posed in many commonly
consumed food items... the new scandal shows that there is still not enough
being done to eliminate lawbreaking production lines,” The Taipei Times said ...
●
TIME 9.8.2014: Gutter Oil'
Scandal Raises Food-Safety Fears Once Again in Greater China
A Taiwanese food-safety scare has spread to Hong Kong...
● Bloomberg
BusinessWeek
9.8.2014:
Tainted Lard: China's Latest Food-Safety Scare Comes From Taiwan
The case is the second major food-safety scandal by a Taiwan-based company in
the past year,...The new gutter-oil scandal has “shocked
local consumers” in Taiwan who expect more from their government, ...“I hope
the law could be revised to impose tougher punishment on those who breach food
safety regulations,”...
●
The South
China Morning Post (HK) 9.7.2014
:Taiwan's "gutter oil" scandal continues to grow, (Taiwan) would not rule out
the possibility Hong Kong and the mainland were affected. ... Chang Guann, the
Kaohsiung-based supplier of lard and cooking oil at the centre of the scandal.
Chang Guann bought at least 240 tonnes of the gutter oil - recycled from kitchen
waste, by-products from leather processing plants and offal from slaughterhouses
- from an unlicensed factory in Pingtung at below-market rates, police have
said.
●The China Times
(9.5.2014, head-page headline news): Disgusting ... Even pigs don't eat those
tainted oil we Taiwanese ate !
●The
United Daily News (9.7.2014) : Scholars criticize: GMP (Assurance
of the safety and quality of Taiwanese food
) is a joke now ! PS: "GMP" (Good Manufacturing Practices) :
Taiwan's most important certification from SGS ensures the integrity of your
food manufacturing process as well as your compliance with food safety
regulations.
◎
★
Wikipedia Nov. 13, 2013
"2013
Taiwan food scandal"
Chang Chi Foodstuff Factory Co. (Chinese:
大統長基)
was found to have used copper
chlorophyllin, an illegal coloring agent for
cooking oil, in its
olive oil and have adulterated its higher-end
cooking oil with cheaper
cottonseed oil. Flavor Full Food
Inc. (Chinese:
富味乡食品)
was accused of blending cheaper cottonseed oil into more expensive cooking oils
to increase their profit. Formosa Oilseed Processing Co. (Chinese:
福懋油)
was found to intentionally mislabel their six cooking oil mixtures as pure olive
oils.
◎
★Till 2013, not only banned colouring
agent,
copper
chlorophyllin cooking oil, toxic
('poisonous') starch,
dangerous levels of industrialplasticisers,
poor-quality rice, deceptive advertising bakery ... were exposed
in Taiwan media, but also dangerous materials/ingredients like hydrogen peroxide, Rongalite (Sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate dihydrate吊白塊 ) ,
Formaldehyde Solution(福馬林),
borax(硼砂) ,
salicylic acid (水楊酸),
NaNO2 nitrite (亞硝酸鹽),
fluorescent whitening/bleaching agent (螢光增白劑), copper salts
(铜鹽), Sudan (蘇丹红),
Butter Yellow(奶油黃), Rhodamine B (鹽基桃紅精), Auramine
(黃色色素鹽基性芥黃),
H202 (過氧化氫), 4-ethoxyphenylurea(乙氧基苯脲),
Lead oxide (氧化铅),
potassium bromate；bromic acid potassium salt (溴酸钾)
etc food additives were found in Taiwan's black-heart food & cuisine industries.
(<Business
Today>.no.856, 2013)
You can see how serious the mess is ... below are some
head-lines & cover-story of Taiwan's popular media/magazines (2013):
(1) <Business Weekly>, no. 1334 ― "Eating in Taiwan, needs
latest common sense" ! ("吃飯 需要新常識" !)
(2) <Business Today>, no. 856 ― "Fatal & horrible materials/ingredients in
Taiwan's food, the secret that restaurants' boss won't speak out" !("要命的恐怖食材,
餐廳老闆不敢說的秘密" ! "黑心醬油毒害全台 夜市、小吃、餐館幾近淪陷"!)
(3) <Common Health Magazine>, no.36 ― "How to survive in 'Poisonous (toxic) starch' storm in Taiwan" !
("毒澱粉風暴下的生存術"
)
(4) <Business Weekly>, no. 1331 "Focus
News" ― "Watch Out ! You are eating 'Poisonous (toxic) starch' all 24 hours", "Black-Heart
food/products everywhere on the streets in Taiwan". ( "小心 你
24小時都在吃毒澱粉",
"...滿街黑心食品".)
(5)
<Apple Daily News>, editorial (6.1.2013) : "We grew up by
eating poisonous food" (辣蘋果: "我們吃毒長大!" ):
Taiwan food safety storm ― poisonous
food with industrial materials/ingredients, expired preservatives... Taiwan's
food problem became a national security issue... government needs more active
on this ...
Taiwanese government should be responsible for the mess !
◎★
★
National Health Research Institutes &
<The
United Daily>
(8-15-2015) "Horrible foods for dining out people - 11 problems"
National Health Research Institutes (NHRI
國家衛生研究院群體健康研究所):
Taiwan's horrible-foods problems for dining-out people in restaurants,
cafeteria, institutions' and companies' private restaurants include too refined
main foods, too big main course, not enough vegetables in package, too many
(almost all are) oil-cooking foods, lots of side dishes are deep fried
and/or preserved, processed foods, pickles, using reused oil or gutter oil
or waste oil for deep frying or pan frying foods ... besides,
restaurants and small shops use MSG, baking soda, and too much salts and sugars
to cook, the soup is not rich at all ... (brief)
◎
★
Apple Daily News
(蘋果日報)8-28-2015, A2 Prime News Edition
The incidence rate of Taiwanese
people suffering colon/rectal cancer was ranked world No.1 (2nd is Korea, 3rd
Slovakia) ,
Taipei Medical University Hospital's director of surgeons expressed Taiwan's
food scandals constantly happened in recent years, many black-heart tainted
foods containing
Carcinogen
(cancer producer) is a factor causing high
incidence rate.
◎
★
Apple Daily News
(蘋果日報)8-29-2015, Prime News Edition
Dark brown sugars commercially available all contain
Carcinogen ("丙烯醯胺",
acrylamide , inspected results - max up to 2740
ppb ). Drinking one cup (700 c.c.) of Pearl Milk Tea per day, may have
risk of getting cancer. Medical Doctors said having
certain amount of acrylamide day after day, may increases risk of
getting esophagus cancer, breast cancer.
◎
★According
to UK's
Economist
Intelligence Unit
- Liveability Country Level Index (Jan. 2015), Taipei's "Food Security Index"
("1" means "Most Secure") is "42", same as all other communist China's major
cities, e.g., GuangZhou, TianJin, Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, all are score
"42".
Singapore's index from "5" in 2014 rises to "2" in 2015
(E.I.U., 5-28-2015) and
tops Asian countries. Most-secure-food cities include New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago,
Washington D.C., all are Index "1", Paris Index is "3" , Zurich and
Amsterdam index "5", Brussels "7".
◎
★
Shin Kong
Wu Ho-Su
Memorial Hospital,
Taiwan Veterans General Hospital,
etc. Jiang So-San M.D. book "食在安心"
:
Most 5 star
hotel restaurants in Taiwan don't wash the vegetables
... see picture & text below.
Another book
"Fruits , Vegetables" (Chinese namely, "遠離毒蔬果") written by IMEI
(義美) group's
leader Luis Ko (高志明), page 162 quoted Dr. Gaston J.C. Wu (professor
& dean, Taiwan Normal University) that Taiwan's vegetables and
fruits should be flush thoroughly with plenty of flowing water
before cooking or/and eating. No just soaking
vegetables and fruits in water in a
large basin ...
◎
★National Taiwan
Normal University - graduate school of Chemistry,
dean Dr. Gaston J. C. Wu (化學所長吳家誠教授)'s book <Those black-heart products
toxin-experts never buy
(毒物專家絕不買的黑心商品)>
(Nov. 2013): Most of the time I eat at home, and has never dined out in
street-side shops / small-eat markets (路邊攤),
because those small-eat shops usually/always
do not
meet the minimum standards of
cleanliness.
In case I can't reject some dinner party or must dine out, I select only
some restaurants I fully trust. Besides, I've never touched processed food
or cured products, and any drinks commercially available(市售飲料)
in Taiwan, particularly, pearl milk tea which already is a world known Taiwanese
food. PS:
The China Times (8-15-2015):
Taiwanese favorite drinks contain high Kcal/g heat, you will gain 5.1kg if having pearl milk tea one regular cup
(not less-sugar option)
per day for 2 months. Green Tea with Yakult(多多)'s
Heat 341 Kcal/g, which is 3.2 times the upper limit
of free sugar(游離糖) advised by WHO., Yakult drink, Orange
juice, milk tea are high-heat too.
★
◎
Pic.
above: 90% of what we eat and use contain poison or toxin - The secret
that Taiwanese business won't tell you, the cover-page
of book
<Those black-heart products poison-experts never buy
(毒物專家絕不買的黑心商品)>,
written by professor Wu (吳家誠),
consultant of Taiwanese government
and dean of National Taiwan Normal University.
◎
pic.
left: Most 5 star hotel
restaurants in Taiwan don't wash
the vegetables, they just soak
in water
and cut them for cooking ... It's 5 star
restaurants' "S.O.P.", not to
mention average Taiwanese
restaurants... , besides, the
food-safety specialty of
restaurants deserves my
concerns. A 5-star
hotel restaurant made Japanese
sashimi
by fresh-water fishes, this may
causes serious infection
and even cancer, according to
Japanese studies in 2013...hence, people
should minimize the number of
times for dining out in Taiwan to
assure safety
... / Jiang M.D.'s book
"食在安心"(by 江守山,
Shin Kong
Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital,
Taiwan Veterans
General Hospital,
etc.), printed in Oct, 2014.
Another book
"Fruits , Vegetables" (Chinese namely, "遠離毒蔬果") written by IMEI
(義美) group's
leader Luis Ko (高志明), page 162 quoted Dr. Gaston J.C. Wu (professor
& dean, Taiwan Normal
University) that Taiwan's
vegetables and fruits should be
flush thoroughly with plenty of
flowing water, those tiny gaps
and hollows also need to be
brushed before cooking
or/and eating. No just
soaking
vegetables and fruits in water in a large basin ...
◎
★
BBC news Nov. 19, 2013
Taiwan food scares
hit shoppers'
confidence
Consumers in
Taiwan have been
shocked by a
series of food
safety scandals.
In one
recent case,
olive oil
was found to
contain low
quality
substitutes
and a banned
colouring
agent.
The
scandals
have hurt
consumer
confidence,
and now
there are
worries they
could dent
the island's
economic
growth and
damage
tourism.
Cindy Sui
reports from
Taipei.
(www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24995485)
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★South China Morning
Post (Hong Kong)
11.17.2013
"Taiwanese
makers of
popular Master
Kong noodles
involved in
cooking oil
scandal"
In
Taiwan's
latest
food
controversy,
companies
have
produced
cooking
oil
with
illegal
additives.
A multitude of Taiwanese companies have become embroiled in a tainted oil food scare, including the owners of popular instant noodle and beverage brand Master Kong. (and other famous companies like Weichuan.com.tw Chinese namely 味全)
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★
Apple
Daily Aug. 31, 2013 (abstract
version 米果)
Toxic
('poisonous') starch,
dangerous levels of industrialplasticisers have been
found in a range of foods and drinks,
deceptive advertising bakery( adding artificial essences into
its breads) and poor-quality rice... all kinds of food safety issues in Taiwan (R.O.C.)
make all of us shock! ...
Taiwanese consumers shortage of backbones already spoiled food industries,
Taiwanese government without courage
compromised and pleased mega
corporations/financial groups by
trading/negotiating national health, illegal companies and material suppliers
don't fear about not too much penalty/consequences, Taiwan has been accepting
imported G.M. (genetic modified) beans which other countries don't accept, just because Taiwanese
people won't die immediately after eating bad soy sauce, soy beans, tofu, etc made by G.M. stuffs, so, Taiwan government feel it does not matter ... !
We should not neglect and forgive all these
mistakes ...
(Chinese version :
從塑化劑、毒澱粉、胖達人、山水米……一路以來各種荒腔走板甚至讓人瞠目結舌的食品安全問題，消費者不僅被業者廠商看扁，還被應該嚴格把關的政府單位看輕，...
沒有骨氣的消費者，間接寵壞了食品業者，而沒有膽識的政府監督單位，最終也只是將國民健康變成貿易談判與討好財團的妥協籌碼，因此對違法的食品廠商或原料供貨商的罰則不痛不癢，其他國家動物都不吃的基改豆，我們拿來做成醬油豆腐豆漿，而且多數消費者因為吃了也不會立刻致命，因此就無所謂。...)
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★
<FTV>
(民視)
12.15.2013
17:30~17:45pm
Taiwan Normal university, professor in Chemistry Dr. Wu
(吳家誠):
Taiwanese government (e.g., Ministry of Health &
Welfare, Council of Agriculture) has not dig out some
ugly truth of food safety problem because they should be
responsible for it ... at present we only hope we can
have safe basic food, e.g., vegetables, fruits, rice,
etc - not various food products......
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital M.D. (顏): It's wrong that
some scholars cover bad food ("won't die to eat those"
...)
Consumers Foundation : More and more chemical
addictives... Taiwan's government again and again let it
go, moves/trends towards black-heart businesses...
TV host (presenter): It's conscience problem!!
("把良心拿出來")
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★<Business
Today> (今周刊)
5.20.2013
Numerous
fatal traps were hidden behind tasty Taiwanese food/cuisine, numerous bizarre
tricks mixed with delicious cuisine in Taiwan's restaurants ? ...
A top chef working in this circle for two decades revealed the dark side (bad cooking
materials/ingredients) behind the scenes. The chef always reminds
his staffs in the kitchen : "these cuisines are made for customers, you
absolutely should not
eat them..."
...Using food addictives is a co-operate/'accomplice' structure among
suppliers, restaurant owners, chefs and consumers...
(共犯結構成形添加物為食界共業, 從供貨商,餐廳經營者,廚師及消費者串聯起來的共業!)
... The most un-forgettable witness experience is
some industries using magic-touch stuff, Malachite (
(C6H5)3CH Triphenylmethane (孔雀石綠 三苯甲埦) ... furthermore, some smart
Taiwanese 'invented' cheaper & same-function & legal
pseudo-Malachite
to replace Malachite. Although, strictly speaking, it still belongs
to the category of veterinary drugs(動物用藥),
and also is dangerous to human beings ? How can we chefs have a peaceful
mind
if we fail to offer customers safe food?
★
Taiwan
food
Pic. above: The secret that restaurant bosses
don't dare to speak
out !
Fatal & Horrible
cooking materials/ingredients !
A top chef : "These cuisine are made for customers, you guys
(assistants in kitchen) don't eat them ! "
Pic. right: Taiwan's government is
unable to do administration on food industry,
all Taiwanese people are
in deep risk !
Black hearted soy sauce harms the whole Taiwan!
it appears almost all night markets,
snack shops, restaurants ...
<Business Today> no. 856
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★
★
<CTV>
(中視
"新聞一點通"),
Sept. 25, 2013 13:35pm
"Taiwan's snack food almost all are involved in poisonous food risks !
("台灣小吃 幾乎淪陷")
Even you cook by yourself, still have chance to eat some black-heart
ingredients/materials...
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★
<Business Weekly>
(商業周刊)
No.1331, 2013
Black hearted food everywhere on the streets ! (滿街黑心食品)
The channels don't report the facts, although knowing
the danger...
Why evil business men can passed through all layers of checkpoints, Taiwanese
government failed to catch them?
(1) The officials/staffs (400
persons in health gov.) are not professional enough, and easy to
yield to violence threats.
(2) Staffs of health gov. don't dare to give heavy penalty on
evil business companies, so they dare to take chance & make
mistakes again and again.
(3) It suppose only take 8 hours to submit samples for testing,
but it takes 1 month, why?
―
famous M.D. Jian (江守山) questioned it gives business men a good
response time, as for "business-men submitted their own sample"
is even worse !
Taiwan's
judicial( justice)
Heavy curse, lenient
sentence, actually
is a "Paper Tiger", it looks strong, but on the inside, it is
spiritually empty ("its bark is worse than its bite")
So,
black hearted businesses spoiled
by Taiwanese justice systems (they did not
carry heavy penalties)
intended to take a chance to violate the laws again and again,
judicial systems failed to punish evil business probably
is one of reasons leading to food risks. for instance,
one business making
plasticizer
only got 14 month sentence.
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★
The China
Times 6.4.2013 Viewpoint from
NanFang Shuo
(南方朔abstract
version)
The
image of Taiwan's "gourmet's dining Heaven/Kingdom" has already
"bankrupt"! ( brief version )
People do not scare to eat anything
in Japan, but Taiwan is different.
Taiwan's propaganda "dining kingdom" should be
replaced by "poisonous food kingdom, because of too many
black hearted food in Taiwan.
Taiwan's food industries have
already used
plasticizers, 'poisonous' starch for 20-30 years, but
Taiwanese government has kept its eyes half opened (
ignored, not taking food-safety adm. as a routine
work ) about all these. In recent years the
discipline of Taiwan's food industries (even large
ones) have been rapidly collapsed (used bad material/ingredients
against the morale rule)......
Taiwan focused on
propaganda and showing off... People here already
don't dare to eat Taiwanese food ... Taiwanese
food's
bankruptcy is only one aspect of Taiwan's
'bankruptcy' ! (台灣飲食的破產,只不過是整個台灣破產的一個側面而已!)
(The author is a cultural critic)
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★ The China Times
6.23.2013
Taiwan imports pigs' food for human kinds
in Taiwan
90% of soybeans that Taiwan imported is G.M. (genetic modified) soybeans, which
contains the herbicide may be carcinogenic to human beings, and is prohibited by
Europe Union and Japan, etc, in those places G.M. soybeans are usually for
feeding pigs.
Do not let Taiwan falls from gourmet heaven
into epicure hell !
...We finally understand that the
key to best taste of
popular refreshing food like pudding, grass jelly, ice cream is
adding industrial
raw materials, and more
horrible,
expired preservatives. Those black hearted plants/companies are well-known
ones, ... it is not an isolated(single) event, we can reason that we
generation (currently about 40 years old) "grew up by eating poisons" ... Taiwanese
government should not slow-react on this issue anymore ...
Every one wants to question our government : Can you give us
a list in which food are safe? we believe no one
is able to guarantee for that, the reason is quite simple
― Taiwan's government
is very passive on food safety check-ups
― unless some one is dead
for poisonous food,
otherwise Taiwanese government won't be crack-down for food problems....
Now Taiwan's food safety has turned out to be a
national security issue...
Tainted products also poison the
president’s chances of re-election
TAIWAN'S biggest-ever food scare began when
government inspectors testing sports drinks and soft
drinks last month detected
dangerous levels of
industrial plasticisers. These are normally used to
make everything from shoes to hosepipes more
flexible. Since then, the plasticisers have been found in a range of foods and drinks. The crisis has
also gone firmly international as China, Hong Kong,
South Korea and the Philippines have withdrawn
Taiwanese products from supermarket shelves.
Taiwanese commentators are wondering how the
government can live the scandal down.
Some 900
products have been pulled from nearly 40,000
Taiwanese shops. Hospitals have been flooded with
worried parents seeking check-ups for......
... (Taiwanese) government's slow and muddled response to the
crisis...
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★
Taipei Times June 10, 2013
EDITORIAL: Food scares hurt Taiwan's image
When plasticizer — a chemical additive to make food more pliable — was found
in 2011 in food and beverages, public awareness of food safety was raised
and the government promised to enhance food safety standards ...Yet, both the
public and the government seem to be forgetful.
the toxic starch scandal (It is the second major
food scare in two years.) has damaged the nation’s culinary
reputation and damaged businesses at night markets. The industrial starch was
found in mostly traditional Taiwanese food and drink, ...These street foods are
popular with locals and foreign tourists
alike....The government must take heed and implement stricter regulations
governing food safety...
("國內把關不嚴 輻射魚恐已上桌", "人在輻中不知輻")
We are afraid that radiant (radiated, radiative, radiation-producing) fishes
from Japan sea area already on Taiwanese dinner tables, but Taiwanese people
have not quite known about this yet.
Taiwan's food tests by food
inspectors took sample-selected rapid test (抽樣, 快篩
antigen detection test), which is not as strictly for national health as that in
Korea or Hong Kong, etc. !?
ps:
http://news.cnyes.com/Content/20130925/KHABWU1MMN6OA.shtml?c=headline_sitehead
(9.25.2013 TW denied Japan's
radiated fishes
already "invaded" Taiwan)
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★ The China Times
3.29.2013
Taiwan's "national scandal"
― G.M.(genetic
modified) food
(abstract version)
National Taiwan University (Department of Agronomy)
Professor Guo hua-ren (郭華仁)
criticized G.M.(genetic
modified)
food in Taiwan is a "national scandal"(「國家級醜聞」),
and urged everyone not eating GM food, since Taiwanese may
not know the risks ―
according to
latest study by French scholar (Seralini),
G.M.
(genetic modified) food
leads to higher probability of getting cancer.
(mouse experiment)
In Taiwan, 99.95% soy products
are imported, 90% of soybeans are GM stuffs.
A WikiLeaks in 2010 revealed that a super-power country intends to build a G.M.
zone in Taiwan because Taiwanese people are so "friendly"
for biotechnology (GM) food ...
ps: Taiwan's government is so "shortage of backbone" !
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★
United Daily News/Liberty Times/China Times etc, 6.5.2014
Top 10 horrible combination-food
in Taiwan for office ladies/men (十大恐怖外食)
horrible index
hamburger + French fries (middle
sized) + coke (600 cc)
too much greasy, sugar, salty
Spareribs (pork-rib) lunch
box排骨便當 + pearl milk tea
(500cc)
Fried-Dumpling鍋貼 + bean sauce (350cc)
Baked Italia noodle + Puff pastry on creamy soup
Korea fried chicken + beer
Fried rice + pork-ball soup貢丸
Ramen (Japanese noodle)拉麵 + soft ice-cream
Braised Pork Rice滷肉飯 +
fish-ball soup
beef
noodle + pickle vegetable酸菜
deep-fried meat-ball炸肉圓 + olen (Japanese style Kantoni)關東煮
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★
<Business Today> (<今周刊>健康生活專刊04),
Sept. 2013
Taiwan's Night Market -
risks
everywhere
evil-heart
addictives harm whole Taiwan - night markets, restaurants, snack
shops, almost all involved
Taiwanese government
poor & weak
adm. ...
(<今周刊>健康生活專刊04,
Sept., 2013)
night market food
addictives
why
dangerous ?
Small Sausage in Large Sausage (大腸包小腸)
nitrite, NIT,NaNO2 (亞硝酸鹽)
Used to add red color for
sausage,
Eating too many may cause cancer
Pearl
milk tea, Tapioca (ball) tea)(珍珠奶茶、
青蛙下蛋、粉圓
Preservative (防腐劑)
Eating too many increases
burden of liver and kidney, and may cause cancer
Deep fried
chicken breast
or grilled roast ones(炸雞排,烤雞排)
Tenderizer(嫩精)
Used for soften the texture, Eating too many
may lead to cardiopalmus, lips numb/tingle,
temporary ageusia/loss of taste
sense (心悸、唇麻、短暫失味覺)
fresh cut fruits、sugar coated Chinese
hawthorn fruit (糖葫蘆)
Saccharin(糖精,
甘精)
Eating too many hurts liver and
alimentary canal or may cause urinary bladder
cancer
May get roseola、feel
like throwing up、diarrhea
、shock to stupor; coma;
muzziness. Taiwan law already
prohibited the use of food/ food products
ps: expert M.D. expressed :
(1)Taiwan's law is behind of medical studies, we already ate lots of
legal but suspicious dangerous food addictives.
(2) medical tests only for single
chemical compound, not for 2+ chemical compounds (which may be
interactive to increase probability of getting cancer) .
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★
<The
China Times>
(8-15-2015)
products
ml
Heat (Kcal/g)熱量
Each bottle equals
how many
(the number of) cubic sugars
Green Tea (多多)
700
341
14
Pearl
Milk Tea (normal full sugar)
700
653
12
Yakult drink (lactic acid)
330
243
11
Orange Juice
400
192
10
Milk Tea
400
212
9
You will gain 5.1kg if having
pearl milk tea one cup per day for 2 months.
Green Tea with Yakult (多多)'s
Heat 341 Kcal/g, which is 3.2 times
the upper limit of free sugar(游離糖) advised by WHO.
In May 2011, the illegal use
of the phthalate plasticizer
di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate
in clouding agents for use
in foods and beverages was
reported in Taiwan. This
food scandal has caused
shock and panic among the
majority of Taiwanese people
and has attracted
international attention.
Phthalate exposure is
assessed by ambient
monitoring or human
biomonitoring. Ambient
monitoring relies on
measuring chemicals in
environmental media,
foodstuff and consumer
products. Human
biomonitoring determines
body burden by measuring the
chemicals, their metabolites
or specific reaction
products in human specimens.
In mammalian development,
the fetus is set to develop
into a female. Because the
female phenotype is the
default, impairment of
testosterone production or
action before the late phase
may lead to feminizing
characteristics. Phthalates
disrupt the development of
androgen-dependent
structures by inhibiting
fetal testicular
testosterone biosynthesis.
The spectrum of effects
obtained following perinatal
exposure of male rats to
phthalates has remarkable
similarities with the human
testicular dysgenesis
syndrome.
Epidemiological
studies have suggested
associations between
phthalate exposure and
shorter gestational age,
shorter anogenital distance,
shorter penis, incomplete
testicular descent, sex
hormone alteration,
precocious puberty, pubertal
gynecomastia, premature
thelarche, rhinitis, eczema,
asthma, low birth weight,
attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder, low
intelligence quotient,
thyroid hormone alteration,
and hypospadias in infants
and children.
Furthermore,
many studies have suggested
associations between
phthalate exposure and
increased sperm DNA damage,
decreased proportion of
sperm with normal
morphology, decreased sperm
concentration, decreased
sperm morphology, sex
hormone alteration,
decreased pulmonary
function, endometriosis,
uterine leiomyomas, breast
cancer, obesity,
hyperprolactinemia, and
thyroid hormone alteration
in adults. ... (ps:
papers by professor Ja-Liang
Lin are now open to everyone
to read through internet,
Sept 25, 2013)
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★ WikiPedia
2011 Taiwan food scandal (abstract version)
The 2011 Taiwan food scandal was a
food safety scandal in
Taiwan over the use one of
plasticizer -
DEHP to replace
palm oil in food and drinks as a
clouding agent.
The chemical agent has been linked to developmental
problems with children as it affects hormones.
The food affected includes beverages, fruit juices,
bread, sports drinks, tea, and jam......
Some media reports, including in The Economist,
conclude that Taiwan's former reputation as a reliable
and safe food manufacturing country has been damaged...
Pearl milk tea, taro balls, crates, meatballs, chicken ......
these Taiwanese cuisine has long been considered a classic, but also
the Taiwanese people's favorite everyday, now because of the
outbreak of toxic starch, so we talk about the discoloration.
Continue plasticizer storm then, no one would have thought that once
again blew the island food safety issues will be - toxic starch...
Maleic acid, also known as 'maleic acid', belonging to other
chemical binder resin material, generally used for coating the
insulating material or as raw materials to produce pesticides, toxic
raw materials for industrial use, add starch for human consumption
is poison starch price and qualified poison starch starch differ 4-6
times, so it is added to the food industry black heart, sent to the
people on the table...
Taiwan and trap 'poisonous food' panic, even more than before plasticizer storm. Taiwan 'dialysis Kingdom' title, after the
outbreak of toxic starch, some nephrologists and toxicology expert
said: 'finally found the culprit kidney injury. 'Shin Kong Hospital
nephrology physician Emori Shan said, maleic acid in animal
experiments will lead to the dog's tubular injury, causing
irreversible damage... Poison starch invade the daily lives of ordinary people, this
time, it seems that no one can say that I am very far away from the
black-hearted food...
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★
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital & medical University
Professor Ja-Liang Lin (director of Clinical
Toxicology) stressed Paylean is toxic (although less toxic, but Paylean
definitely is
"瘦肉精" ), and may causes
palpitations and other cardiovascular diseases,
currently is banned by 29 countries including Singapore
and Europe Union. (Dr. J.L.Lin
does not agree Taiwan government's policy to import US beef - reported by
news.pts.org.tw & Apple Daily 8.5.2013,
now Taiwan is open for US beef)
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★
The Straits
Times, ASIA NEWS NETWORK,
29-05-2013
Food vendors in Taiwan wring
hands over toxic starch
Eateries, night market stalls and
convenience shops around Taiwan are reeling after a
substance harmful to the kidneys was found in
popular snacks from meat balls to the tapioca
"pearls" used in bubble tea.
The scare is reminiscent of a 2011 scandal when an
industrial chemical detrimental to sexual
development was found in hundreds of beverages ...
At the centre of the latest storm is the industrial
substance maleic anhydride, which imparts chewiness
but can cause kidney failure if taken in sufficient
doses...
Some experts, such as Dr Lin Chieh-liang, the chief
clinical toxicologist at Chang Gung Memorial
Hospital, linked the prevalence of toxic powdered
starch to the disproportionately high incidence of
kidney failure in Taiwan.
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★ Consumer Reports of Taiwan
Sept. 5, 2013
Head-line : ractopamine is found in beef sample test of 2013!
On March 2012,
ractopamine was found in 1/3 (5 pieces) beef samples selected from markets.
In another test on July 2013, ractopamine 0.01 ppm was found in one piece frozen
US beef sample.
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★
China Post 8.28.2013
Bakery scandal just tip of deceptive
food ads. iceberg
(abstract version)
The bakery ( Top Pot Bakery, a famous Taiwanese company) had been boasting in its advertisements that its
bread was made with natural ingredients and zero flavoring
essence. This was found (by a Hong Kong blogger & customer) to be a somewhat inaccurate claim
(ps: deceptive advertising): the
company had been adding artificial essences into its breads.
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★
United Daily News
4.30.2011 ,
CNNGO
3.23.2012
Top
10 Most Dangerous Taiwanese food in
night markets
(<聯合報> 4.30.2011)
night market food
heat density(Kcal/g)熱量密度
quantity of heat
(Kcal/g)熱量
鹽酥雞Taiwan's fried chicken
3.9
585/150
蔥油餅Scallion Cake or Chinese Pizza (intro.
by CNN)
3.78
541/143
鍋貼Fried-Dumpling
3.06
753/246
大腸包小腸
Small Sausage in Large Sausage (intro. by CNN)
2.68
582/217
滷肉飯
Braised Pork Rice
2.25
648/288
油炸臭豆府腐
deep fried Stinky Tofu
2.13
565/265
米糕
Gutinous Rice Pudding
1.98
672/340
肉圓Meatball
1.85
324/185
蚵仔煎
Oyster Omelet
1.55
516/332
蚵仔麵線Oyster thin/soft
Noodles (intro. by CNN)
1.01
415/412
(above may be: Top 10 Most Popular Local Delicacies)
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Top 10 street food in
Shilin night market
(士林夜市)
night market food
heat
(Kcal)熱量
Deep fried
chicken breast (豪大炸雞排)
657
蚵仔煎
Oyster Omelet
525
油炸臭豆府腐
deep fried Stinky Tofu
496
Tempura (Japanese name), deep-fried fish kind stuffs天婦羅
482
士林大香腸
Large Sausage
385
大餅包小餅
Small roll (pie) in Large roll (pie)
385
士林大煎包 Pan-fried Pork Dumpling (Large sheng jian bao )
Ps: (1) advice: share food with your friend, peel the fried
chicken skin, etc
(2) measure Kcal compared with : 1 bowl of cooked rice has about 280
Kcal
CNNGO
introduced Taiwanese snacks in night markets and
ranked it as No. 2 among
Asia's 10 greatest
street foods. 1. Sheng jian bao生煎包 2. Chou doufu (stinky tofu) 臭豆腐
3. Oa misua (oyster vermicelli)
蚵仔麵線 4. Gua bao (pork
belly bun or "Taiwanese burger," as it's sometimes called)
掛包 5. Hujiao bing ( wheat buns more
accurately, pies or pockets) 胡椒餅 6. Niu rou mian ( spicy beef soup with hand-pulled
noodles)牛肉麵 7. Douhua 豆花 8. Cong you bing ( a flaky scallion pancake made with
hand-rolled dough) 蔥油餅 9. Da chang bao xiao chang (Small
Sausage in Large Sausage ,
big sausage wrapped
around small sausage)大腸包小腸.
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★
Taipei Times
May 27, 2013
Plasticizers found in 10 food
products in Taipei
VICTIMS? One
firm said that it complied with a recall and tested
all its products after last year’s scare, so it
wondered if the test sample had come from old stock
After a plasticizer food scare in May last year,
10 more products have been found to contain
excessive levels of plasticizers, ...
Plasticizers are chemical additives used to make
plastic more pliable, but they were found in
food additives such as clouding agents — a food
additive used to emulsify drinks and make them
look more appealing — sparking a food scare.
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★
China Post 8.27.2013
Sunsuivi, one of the three top-selling rice brands in Taiwan,
sold the rice with labels boasting that the product is home
grown, but it was actually poor-quality rice imported from
Vietnam.
Some 50,000 packages of mislabeled rice have been sold... Sunsuivi apologizes for selling Vietnam rice as local...
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★
China Post May 17, 2013
New Taipei City seizes over 14,000 liters of
problematic soy sauce products
TAIPEI, Taiwan --
... New Taipei City
yesterday seized up to 14,480 liters of soy sauce
products allegedly containing an excessive amount of heterocyclic organic chemicals from an underground
factory ...
Nestle and KLIM milk powder were found with contained Melamine（C3H6N6）in
Taiwan, although Taiwan's leader in health dept. and food industry research and
development Institute both guaranteed all milk powder in shelves were passed strict test
and are safe...
PS: all news above are abstract version.
Details pls. refer to media in that day.
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★ United Daily News
Dec. 18 & Dec. 19, 2013
Criticizing "Taiwan food" series
(written in Chinese)
★
The China Times
6.23.2013
Taiwan imports pigs' food for human kinds in Taiwan
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★
WikiLeaks 2010 : Taiwanese people are friendly for Bio.
tech. and are intend to buy GM label food, so the "Embassy" of a strong nation
is planning to build a (3) Genetic Modification (GM) zone in Taiwan.
In fact, it's a so called "national scandal" (the China
Times, Mar. 29, 2013) that Taiwanese consumers generally do not fully know or
don't care the controversy health
risks caused by GM food. Taiwanese government should urge everyone
refusing to buy and eat GM food.
About 99.5% of soy food products in Taiwan are imported, 90% of them are GM soy
beans
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★
World Best restaurants in Asia, by Wikipedia, Daily Meal,
World's50Best, Country Brand Index
There is no any Taiwanese restaurant included in the list.
On this list, top 10 are in Western world (Spain, Denmark, Italia, USA, UK,
Austria, Germany), Hong Kong's 龍景軒 is the
highest ranking (No.75) Chinese restaurant, Taiwanese chef Jiang (江振誠)'s
"Restaurant Andre" located in Singapore ranks
No.38.
★US <The Daily Meal>
(USA) 101 Best Restaurants in Asia, The Daily Meal celebrates the most
exemplary epicurean endeavors in Asia :
● (1)
Din Tai Fung admitted at 5-9-2012 having
used Monosodium Glutamate
/ sodium glutamate (M.S.G.)as
addictive in some foods there -
and they won't change this policy so as
to keep major cuisine (e.g., steamed
bun/bao (小籠包), chicken soup) delicious
(according to United Daily News 5.9.2013). According to
National
Health Research Institutes
and United Daily News (8-15-2015) "Horrible foods for dining out":
Taiwan's food (in restaurants, cafeteria, etc) problems include using
MSG.
According to medical studies,
using Monosodium
Glutamate (MSG) is a controversial
issue. (ref to "The Dangers of MSG" :
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/food-nutrition/facts/the-dangers-of-monosodium-glutamate.htm) Some claimed it
may causes asthma, headache, even brain
damage. )
● (2)
Din Tai Fung suspiciously were involved in
Taiwanese food scandal, Apple Daily (蘋果日報)10-10-2014
reported that one Taiwanese Dept. of
Health found out Din Tai Fung imported some oil
products from King's Cook which bought lard oil (mixing animal
feed with cooking oil) from Ting Hsin Int'l. (
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/20141010/485241/
台中市衛生局調查發現，鼎泰豐曾向購買頂新正義油品的台中金品調理(KingsCook)
公司進貨，恐中鏢。)
●
(3)
Din Tai Fung admitted having used G.M.(genetic
modified)
soy material(豆類)
for a long time (until July 2015).
The China Times,
(3.29.2013)
reported professor Kuo H. J.
(National Taiwan University, Department of Agronomy)
comments - Taiwan using G.M.(genetic
modified) is "national scandal" (「國家級醜聞」),
French scholar Seralini found G.M. foods
may cause cancer with higher
probability,
BBC
(6.6.2013)<Taiwan
diet danger everywhere>:
Taiwan
is the only country in the world imports GM soy for eating.
But Din Tai Fung still used the
"scandalous" G.M. stuff for 2+ years after the
news being spread island-wide.
Recently,
CNN (7-24-2015) dropped Din Tai Fung
down to No.20 position in Taiwanese
foods list.
Besides, there're 6 restaurants located in Taipei rank Top 101 Asian
best restaurants:
No. 43: 台南(Tainan)度小月擔仔麵
No. 50: 非零餐廳 (meaning translation: Non-zero restaurant)
No. 70: 義大利餐館(Osteria by Angie), an Italia restaurant
No. 74: 七十二牛肉麵 (Seventy-Two beef noodle restaurant)
No. 76: 法式餐廳(La Cocotte, a French restaurant)
No. 86: 鐵匠鐵板燒居酒屋。
ps:
Best dish in Taiwan : oyster omelet (introduced by
Discovery channel of USA) ― it is most typical Taiwanese food( street snack
everywhere in night markets), but not exquisite & elaborated food.
The oyster omelet usually use peanut (fatal aflatoxin
often come from this, Taiwanese beef noodle if using 豆瓣醬 may has possibility of
containing aflatoxin which may leads to liver cancer ) powder
and unknown addictives.
Chinese
language intro. to Taiwan cuisines
★ According to < Miele
Guide> of 2011/2012, There's no any Taiwanese restaurants
included in top 20 list, as for top 5 restaurants in Taiwan are listed as below:
(1) Din Tai Fung, ps: This restaurant admits they do use
Monosodium Glutamate as addictive, and won't change this policy so as to
keep major cuisine (e.g., steamed bun, chicken soup) delicious,
according to United Daily News 5.9.2013.
(2) 銀翼 (best dishes:文思豆腐,蔥開煨麵)
(3) 欣葉 (02-25963255, best: 煎豬肝, 菜埔蛋)
(4) 樂沐法式餐廳, a French restaurant (excellent, evaluated by Relais &
Chateaux in 2011)
in Taichung city (04)23753002(best
dish: 經典套餐NT3800)
(5)La Cocotte, a traditional French cuisine restaurant own by
Fabien Verge (02)33223289 (best dish: NT980白酒墩牛肚)
★ According to < Country Brand Index> of 2007( 2008
Top Country Brand Index Ranking )，Japan
is the only Asian country ranking top 10, Red China is a rising
star.
"Fine
dining" category:
2007-2008
Italia, Singapore, Japan,
US, UK, UAE, Malaysia, Spain, Argentina .( underscore
for Eastern nations)
"Food" category:
2011-2012
1 Italy, 2France, 3 Japan, 4Spain, 5
Singapore, 6 Thailand, 7 India, 8 Brasil, 9 Malaysia,
10 Swiss, 11 Germany, 12 Vietnam, 13
Greece, 14 Australia, 15 USA (underscore for Asian nations)
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began 2011 till present
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