Expired creamer remade into milk tea and lattes, circulating through 180 tea and breakfast shops in southern Taiwan, China, reaching 16,000 kg

Residents in the south, take note! The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has uncovered expired creamer being mixed in and remade into products such as "Cappuccino White Coffee," coffee creamer, Tieguanyin milk tea, and sweet potato latte, 31 products in total, with a total quantity of as much as 16,392 kg, supplied to as many as 180 downstream restaurant and tea drink shops, mostly concentrated in Kaohsiung, with the non-compliant products having been on the market for up to one year, meaning most consumers may have already eaten them. (See the full list of non-compliant products in the article)

Illegal remanufacturing with expired raw materials violates the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation and can carry a fine of NT$60,000 to NT$200 million

Lu Yun-ru stated that the operator used expired and near-expiry raw materials to manufacture products and arbitrarily extended the products' expiration dates, which violates Article 15, Paragraph 1 of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation; under Article 52 of the same Act, the products shall be confiscated and destroyed, and under Article 44 of the same Act, a fine of no less than NT$60,000 and no more than NT$200 million may be imposed. The Kaohsiung City Government Department of Health, in accordance with Article 41, Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 4 of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation, has required the operator to suspend operations and stop sales starting April 9, 2019 (ROC year 108), and it may resume operations only after improvements have been made and the health authority has given its consent.