Ting Hsin Vietnam feed tallow downstream products add three more items, spice factory once had a record of environmental pollution
Dingxin Vietnam feed-grade beef tallow downstream products, three more were added this morning. The Food and Drug Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that as of noon today (the 29th), the newly delisted items include Longyuan Spice Co., Ltd.'s braised beef tallow spice and beef spice, as well as Ouyi Baking Co., Ltd.'s egg yolk pastry crust. Including the 106 items announced yesterday, the total number of affected products removed from shelves has now risen to 109.
Among them, Longyuan Spice Company's main business items are various types of food additive spices and seasonings. Its predecessor was Longyuan Spice Industrial Firm. In 1997, its business scope expanded to mainland China, and it established Shuang Kai Spice (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. in Kunshan, Shanghai, mainly supplying food additives such as flavors, seasonings, stabilizers and emulsifiers. Longyuan Spice's sales targets cover the domestic market, mainland China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and other places.
In addition, Longyuan Spice Factory was already caught last year by the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Taoyuan County Government secretly discharging wastewater that polluted Dongming Stream and the farmland irrigated by its diverted water, turning the clear-water section of Dongming Stream downstream of its factory dark brown and giving off a foul odor. It already had a record of misconduct long ago.
As for Shusen Company's use of feed oil from Quanya Company to make "powdered beef tallow powder" into restructured beef, affecting 573 stores across Taiwan, China, a consumer refund mechanism is currently being drafted. However, because downstream manufacturers that buy Shusen's "budget standard steak" will further process it into various meat chunks and slices and turn it into various meals for sale, if consumers want to use invoices, signed receipts and other proof of purchase for refunds, the purchased items must still be verified before a refund can be given.
In response, yesterday the Taipei City Health Department already announced 30 stores and meal items, allowing people who bought the relevant meals after May 1 to apply to the stores for refunds, while the Taichung City Health Department also announced the names of 8 stores (as shown in the image), but the items at the Taichung City stores are still unclear, so refunds cannot yet be accepted.
It is understood that the refund mechanism was proposed by Shusen Company, but currently only the affected stores and items in Taipei City have been released. The stores in Taipei City are handled by the Taipei City consumer protection officer, but consumers in other counties and cities must wait until consumers file with the local consumer protection officers in each county and city. There is no unified refund standard or public announcement of information.
