Ministry of Health and Welfare leaks unverified list of blended oil, damaging century-old oil shop's reputation

The Ministry of Health and Welfare recently accidentally leaked a list of oil products "suspected" of failing purity standards, and the century-old Taoyuan shop "Deji Oil Shop" was unexpectedly on it, with complaint calls flooding in; it later turned out to be a false alarm. Deji Oil Shop asked the Ministry of Health and Welfare to issue an official document clarifying the matter, but was refused on the grounds that "an announcement is already online." Deji Oil Shop said helplessly that the Ministry said it could apply for state compensation, but when it was clearly its own mistake, using taxpayers' money to make up for it is very irresponsible, and it hopes the competent authority will establish standard operating procedures in the future and not wrong oil shops that do their work with a clear conscience.

Blended-oil list leaked before confirmation, century-old oil shop's goodwill damaged

Last month the Ministry of Health and Welfare tested oil products on the market claiming to be 100% pure oil, and 37 of them had discrepancies in fatty acid distribution, "suspected" of being impure. The list was exposed on the 30th, and the bitter tea oil and peanut oil sold by the century-old Taoyuan oil-pressing shop "Deji Oil Shop" unexpectedly appeared on it. However, after the local health bureau compared raw materials and shipment data, on November 2 it quietly added "Deji Oil Shop" to the qualified list on its website, but the century-old shop's goodwill had already been damaged.

Zhang Ruirong, the fourth-generation successor of Deji Oil Shop, said that after the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced the "suspected" blended-oil list that night, the phone rang off the hook for several consecutive days, and some customers even asked for returns. That night she immediately called the Ministry of Health and Welfare to protest, hoping the Ministry would say which fatty acid database it was comparing against, but was refused, and her father, who had pressed oil his whole life, was so angry he could not speak.

She said the local health bureau had come to take samples for testing well before the list was published, but before the results were out, they were put on the suspected blended-oil list. "A century-old reputation built through hard work was overturned overnight; it feels a lot like being called a murderer when you clearly did not kill anyone."