According to Taiwan’s“Eastern News Cloud” reported on July 7, Taiwan Zoomlion oil carcinogenic salad oil incident continues to expand. The head of Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and welfare, Shi Chongliang, said on the afternoon of the 7th that all the 232 products involved had been taken off the shelves preventively, including 175 blended oil products with a usage ratio of less than 20% , must be completed before 24:00 on the 8th off the shelf, the operator must submit a qualified standard inspection before re-shelves. In response, the chairman of the People’s Party, Huang Guochang, lambasted the Democratic Progressive Party authorities for dragging their feet again and again in the midst of the cancer-causing oil storm that was affecting people’s food safety, changing their language again and again, and“Making out-of-tune policies.”.
Taiwan’s Zoomlion Oil Storm continues to burn, Kaohsiung City Health Bureau checks. Photograph: Taiwan Media
Reported that Huang Guochang said the DPP authorities in dealing with the carcinogenic oil storm, a short period of seven days, there were four different versions, completely unable to build public trust. He said Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and welfare was“Extremely silent”.
Huang said Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare initially announced only three manufacturers and demanded the removal of 18 items from shelves until it was forced to announce the third tier of 360 manufacturers in the face of intense public anger. At that time, however, the DPP authorities not only failed to clearly explain the relevant items, but even came up with a set of inexplicable and clearly illegal requirements for the“20% blending oil ratio” to be removed from the shelves, it left the public completely unable to understand the DPP authorities’ logic. Even though Shi Chongliang revised his statement again on the 7th, requiring all products with a ratio of less than 20% to be taken off the shelves preventively before midnight on the 8th, Huang Guochang still holds strong doubts about the implementation support of the DPP authorities.
Huang Guochang asked Lai Qingde, leader of the Democratic Progressive Party, to find out exactly how many products were contaminated and whether the flow of up to 1,300 tons of cancer-causing oil had been mastered. He angrily criticized the DPP authorities for failing to find out the basic direction of the flow, which is to let people’s health and safety go to waste, turning the DPP authorities’ food and safety promises into a complete joke.
A total of 1,300 tonnes of soy salad oil produced by Taiwan’s Zoomlion oil company was found to contain benzopyrene, a carcinogen, in many food processing plants, restaurants and even schools on the island. Taiwan has been gripped by a food safety scare, with public opinion on the island criticising the DPP authorities for their lack of supervision.