China News Service, February 7 (Xinhua) According to Taiwan's "United Daily News", Taiwan Sugar Corporation (Taiwan Sugar) plum blossom pork contains clenbuterol, causing food safety concerns on the island. Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration confirmed on the early morning of the 7th that clenbuterol "sibutrol" was detected in meat products re-inspected.
Information map of Taiwan Sugar Plum Blossom Pork. Image source: Taiwan's "United Daily News"
Taiwan Sugar's frozen plum pork slices were found to contain trace amounts of clenbuterol "sibutrol" by the Taichung City Government, raising food safety concerns. Taiwan's administrative agency's Food Safety Office announced earlier that no trace of "sibutrol" was detected in the same batch of meat. Luo". After the Taichung City Health Bureau received Taiwan Sugar's application for re-inspection on the 5th, it divided the residual samples into two parts, one of which was handed over to the "Food and Drug Administration" for re-inspection, and the other was invited by the Taichung City Health Bureau to the "Food and Drug Administration" , Taiwan Sugar personnel and experts and notaries invited by both parties will conduct re-inspections on the 6th. This batch of meat products totaled 2,730 packages and 819 kilograms.
Taiwan's "Director of Food and Drug Administration" Wu Xiumei said that the detection of "sibuterol" at 0.001ppm was confirmed in the early morning of the 7th, and the result has been reported to the Taichung Food Safety Department.
It is reported that Taiwan Sugar is a local enterprise under the Economic Affairs Department of the Taiwan authorities and is also the largest pig raising enterprise in Taiwan. The "Anxin Dolphin" in question this time is said to come from a processing plant with Taiwan's Good Agricultural Products Label (CAS) certification, and the source feed, pigs and butchery processes have all been checked. Zeng Zhichao, deputy secretary-general of the Taiwan Chinese Economic and Financial Association, wrote to Taiwan's China Times on the 5th, pointing out that if there are problems with products under such strict review standards by public entities, it means that there are major loopholes in Taiwan's food safety inspection.