Beihai feed oil mixed with lard affects products including a vegetable bun shop on the old street in Hsinchu
On the 3rd, the Tainan District Prosecutors Office announced that Beihai Oils was suspected of adulterating and mixing feed oil to make lard, and confirmed 6 major lard product items, which were sent to health bureaus in various places, and downstream operators were required to voluntarily report by 6 o'clock tomorrow. Yesterday evening, the local health bureaus of Taipei City, Taichung City, Tainan City, and Kaohsiung City successively published downstream lists. As of 8 a.m. this morning, according to statistics from the Food and Drug Administration, the health bureaus of various counties and cities have reported a total of 38 products (see attachment).
Among them, the newly added items compared with yesterday evening include the vegetable buns of Old Street Yikou Vegetable Bun in Hsinchu County, the mung bean pastries and sweet potato filling of Tianyuanwei Bakery, and the fried shallot fragrance of Shangwang Biotechnology Company; the pork floss, seaweed sesame pork floss of Guangyuexiang Food Company in Nantou County, and the original-flavor and seaweed-flavor Chengji pork floss of Weixiang Company.
A total of 111 downstream food material sellers, manufacturers, and others nationwide had purchased oil products from Beihai Company. In the lists successively published yesterday evening, in the Taipei City portion, 6 downstream operators had used the problematic Beihai lard products. At present, all 6 operators have reported to the health bureau, including the "Changbin No.1" ramen shop, "Industrial Technology Integration Marketing Co., Ltd.", and 4 grain stores, with a total of 4,410 kg of products removed from shelves. Tainan City accounted for 26 of them, including the Tainan City Gourmet Channel distributor and the handmade guoshao yi mian (pot-cooked yi noodles) made purely by hand in Anping. These 26 downstream names removed a total of 4,125 kg of products from shelves. In addition, 330 pieces of guoshao yi mian made with feed oil were sealed and stored.
The Taichung City Health Bureau announced 8 manufacturing and selling companies, which made products such as fried shallot crisps and egg pancake skins, sealed and stored 5,190 kg of oil products, returned 6,060 kg, and 972 kg of fried shallot crisps. In the downstream list of 20 that flowed into Kaohsiung, a total of 5,656 kg of oil products have currently been removed from shelves. In the list, apart from 7 being food sellers and distributors, the downstream products were mainly made into sailfish floss, tuna floss, pork floss, and dried pork slices. In addition, the pork ribs crisp, chicken burgers, hamburger patties, fried chicken nuggets, and others produced by Lida Livestock Industry Company covered 23 items.
Only after the local health bureaus consolidate the lists will they be transmitted to the Food and Drug Administration's system. In this morning's announcement by the Food and Drug Administration, in addition to the items announced by the local health bureaus yesterday, newly added were Hsinchu County's Old Street Yikou Vegetable Bun, the "Tianyuanwei Bakery mung bean pastry" that has repeatedly won the Kaohsiung City baking award, sweet potato filling, and the fried shallot fragrance of Shangwang Biotechnology Company; Nantou County's Guangyuexiang Food Company pork floss, seaweed sesame pork floss, and Weixiang Company's original-flavor and seaweed-flavor Chengji pork floss, etc. Before 6 o'clock tonight, all downstream operators must voluntarily report that they have completed removal from shelves, otherwise they will be fined 3 to 3 million yuan in accordance with the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation.
List Announced by the Food and Drug Administration Today
