Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2013-11-19
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| Taisun president Chan Yueh-lin says the Spanish company from which he imports olive oil is very respected. (File photo/Fang Chun-cher) |
Food makers
in Taiwan said on Nov. 17 that the nation's food safety standards and
regulations should be as strict as international standards, and supervision
mechanisms be better organized.
"There
should be a national standard for us to follow to make it easier for us to find
problems, if there are any," said Chan Yueh-lin, head of the Taiwan Food
Industry Development Association and president of Taisun Enterprise Co,
following the revelation that Taisun's olive oil imported from Spain contained
the illegal coloring agent copper chlorophyllin.
"I
think the problem would be how we test it," Chan said. "The Spanish
company we are working with is over 100 years old and has a great reputation
and it is inconceivable that something like this could happen."
Chan urged
the government to come up with standards that match those in other countries.
"We need a rule to follow," he said.
Lin
Li-chung, head of Formosa Taffeta's food oil department, said the company is
not capable of carrying out tests for copper chlorophyllin in the products they
import. "We will not import them any more, nor items of which we cannot be
100% sure," Lin said.
An unnamed
manager for Uni-President said the company's imports from Spain all came with
certificates. "How do we know that the product can be wrong even when it
has a certificate?" he said.
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