2014 food scandal in Taiwan
The 2014 Taiwan Food Scandal is used to describe two food scandals that were uncovered in Taiwan in 2014 . On the one hand, cooking oil was adulterated, on the other hand, food was colored with industrial paint.
Cooking oil scandal
Cooking oils were made from kitchen scraps and fat from leather- processing factories . The fats were labeled as an original product for the soap industry , then relabeled and processed into food . The contaminated oil reached around 1,200 retailers via 230 direct buyers. Not only were Taiwanese companies affected , the oil was also exported to Hong Kong , Macau and China . In Hong Kong, the popular Maxim's bakery stopped selling pineapple buns after it became known that the contaminated oil had been used in their manufacture. The Philippines and Singapore led to the uncovering of the scandal increased testing of imported products from Taiwan. The Taiwanese health authority came to the conclusion after a series of tests that the oil meets all safety standards. However, since the production of the oil in this way was illegal, the sale of the affected oils was ordered to be stopped. President Ma Ying-jeou announced on October 13, 2014 that the government would pursue food safety violations with the full severity of the law. On October 9, 2014, a commission of inquiry into the scandal was set up to investigate it. Several people involved were arrested as a result of the scandal, including the head of the company responsible for the scandal. The company was punished with a payment of around 1.2 million euros.
Food coloring scandal
In November 2014, it came to light that tofu and spice products from Taiwanese manufacturers had been colored with the non-approved food color butter yellow. This dye was also used in Germany and Switzerland in the 1940s to color food, but was then banned because of its carcinogenic effect. The coloring of the Taiwanese products was not uncovered by Taiwanese, but by Hong Kong investigating authorities. In the course of the investigations it turned out that the dye had been in use unnoticed for 20 years. Chien Hsin Enterprises (芊 鑫 實業 社) in Tainan was named as the company primarily responsible . Other products such as ramen noodle spice products also contained butter yellow. These products had been exported to many countries including the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Canada, Australia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of China. In western countries they were available in Asian stores.
Individual evidence
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