Pork Labeling Scandal: New Taipei City Cracks Down on False Origin Claims by Restaurants

2023-10-08 08:03:45

In response to recent cases of false pork labeling, the New Taipei City Health Bureau launched a project in October to inspect the use of pork labels by catering operators. A total of 83 restaurants have been inspected. Today, it was announced that 7 catering operators were seized, 3 of which failed to indicate the origin of pork raw materials, and 4 of them failed to declare the origin of pork raw materials. Business operators who falsely declare the origin of their pork will be fined for violating the Food Safety and Hygiene Management Act.

In response to recent cases of inaccurate pork labeling, the New Taipei City Health Bureau launched a project in October to investigate the use of pork labels by catering operators, and a total of 83 restaurants have been inspected. (Central News Agency file photo)

The health bureau issued a press release stating that three businesses that did not declare the origin of pork used pork imported from Canada and the United States. The other four businesses were involved in labeling pork originating in Taiwan as imported from Spain and Canada, or labeling pork imported from Canada as Taiwan. .

The Health Bureau said that businesses that fail to declare the origin of pork raw materials will be fined not less than NT$30,000 but not more than NT$3 million for violating the Food Safety Law; those who make false statements will be fined not less than NT$40,000 but not more than NT$4 million for violating the same law.锾.

The Health Bureau stated that it also targeted two companies, “Xinxing Freeze” and “Ruiteng International”, for falsely labeling the origin of pork in violation of regulations. They had shipped to 54 restaurants in the lower reaches of New Taipei City. After inspection, there were no cases of meat with illegal batch numbers in any of the sites. , after detailed inspection and comparison of information, it was found that these operators did not know the information and were victims of false origin labelling, so the list of operators and other information was not announced.

Editor: Qin Yingwen

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