Downstream oil products of Beihai Oil were inspected by the Kaohsiung City Health Bureau, and multiple Lida products were included in the list
In response to the matter of Beihai Oils and Fats mixing non-edible oil and feed-grade oil into edible oil to refine it into edible lard, the Kaohsiung City Government Health Bureau received from the Tainan City Government Health Bureau a list of 20 downstream businesses supplied in Kaohsiung, and immediately launched an inspection. As of 5 o'clock, the full inspection had been completed, and a total of 5,656 kg of oil products had been taken off the shelves.
The Beihai Oils and Fats oil products requiring removal from shelves this time include: Xinwanxiang Traditional Fragrant Lard (round lid) 15 kg, Xinwanxiang Traditional Fragrant Lard (square lid) 15 kg, Gufengwei Fragrant Lard 15 kg, Beihai Fragrant Lard (cardboard box) 16 kg, Beihai Fragrant Lard (iron drum) 15 kg, Beihai Fragrant Lard (hard fat) 180 kg, Beihai Fragrant Lard (soft fat) 180 kg, Refined Oil (round lid) 15 kg, Refined Oil (square lid) 15 kg, Refined Oil (hard fat) 180 kg, Refined Oil (soft fat) 180 kg, Haoyoudao Refined Oil (18 liters), and the Baikedin Fragrant Lard series and other oil product items. The Kaohsiung City Health Bureau urges businesses that use the above oil products to reprocess foods to also voluntarily remove them from shelves and to proactively report the names and quantities of recalled products to the Health Bureau.
Article 7 of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation stipulates that food businesses, upon discovering that a product may be hazardous to health and safety, shall immediately voluntarily stop manufacturing, processing, and selling it and carry out recalls, and shall notify the competent authority. If they fail to proactively notify, they may be fined under Article 47 of the Food Safety and Sanitation Act a fine of no less than NT$30,000 and no more than NT$3 million.
In addition, regarding the quantities of problematic oil products returned from various counties and cities as tabulated by Justice Co., Ltd., the cumulative total was 1,970.267 tons (including 445 tons of finished product inventory and 474 tons of tank inventory).