Qiangguan was ordered to suspend operations and hit with a heavy fine of 50 million yuan, and its oil products will also be subject to expanded testing.

Qiangguan Enterprise, which uses recycled waste cooking oil to produce "Quantong Fragrant Lard," was today fined NT$50 million by the Kaohsiung City Health Bureau under Article 44 of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation and ordered to suspend operations, and the person in charge, Yeh Wen-hsiang, was also transferred to the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office for investigation.

The Food and Drug Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, which yesterday released the test results for Qiangguan's "Quantong Fragrant Lard" and the raw material oil, is currently not only actively testing the swill oil of its upstream supplier Kuo Lieh-cheng, but also suspects that other oil products sold by Qiangguan may be adulterated, and is actively taking samples for testing.

As of 2 p.m. today, the Food and Drug Administration's count of downstream businesses affected by Qiangguan's problematic fragrant lard (such as food stalls and restaurants) remained at 1,020, but the number of end food products increased to 222. The newly added food products are mainly 5 items in the garlic toast bread series from Shanghong Food in Changhua County and 8 items including rice and noodle steamed vermicelli products from Jinxin Fresh Food Factory in Kaohsiung City.

Feng Jun-lan, director of the Food and Drug Administration's Northern Regional Management Center, said that of the 235 first-tier downstream manufacturers of Qiangguan Enterprise identified so far, 19 businesses still refuse to disclose the flow of the problematic products, or their flow differs from what the next-tier businesses say. Feng Jun-lan said that if businesses continue to refuse to disclose the truth, they will be fined under the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation.