Want China Times, CNA 2014-09-06
Empty supermarket shelves from which affected products have been removed. (Photo/Chi Chih-hsiang) |
At least
235 Taiwanese food companies and restaurants have used the suspect lard-based
oil brand made with recycled kitchen waste, the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) said Friday.
An
investigation found that Kaohsiung-based Chang Guann Company has supplied
51,981 18-liter cans of its "Chuan Tung" cooking oil to companies
across Taiwan, according to FDA chief Yeh Ming-kung.
This has
affected well-known companies such as Triko Foods Company, Ve Wong Corporation,
Taiwan Sugar Corporation, the Mei & Mei restaurant chain, WHM Company, the
Yu Jen Jai pastry shop, Chi Mei Frozen Food Company, Hawdii and Kong Yen Foods
Company.
Wei Chuan
Foods Corporation, another customer of Chang Guann and a major player in the
industry, has already recalled 12 products including its popular canned pork
fiber and meat paste immediately following the revelations on Thursday.
According
to Chang Guann, the oil was sourced between February and August by an
individual named Kuo Lieh-cheng, who allegedly worked with five others to use a
phony waste processing company as a front to collect oils meant to be recycled
for uses other than human consumption.
Chang Guann
allegedly bought 242 tonnes of oils provided by Kuo and turned them into 782
tonnes of products sold as lard-based oils.
Kuo, now
facing prosecution, is believed to have gone so far as to collect grease
by-products from leather processing plants to market as edible oils.
Yeh
Wen-hsiang apologizes for the oil scandal, Sept. 11. (Photo/CNA)
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Kuo
Lieh-cheng covers his face with a hat as
he rushes into Pingtung District
Court, Sept. 6.
(Photo/Lin Ho-sheng)
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