Along the streets of Taipei on Chung Hsiao East Road trendy downtown coffee shop window, hung a large black writing board, said: "In our store all the products do not contain plasticizers."
For Apple Daily, a popular local newspaper front page, then few days, the big beverage companies like Coca-Cola has been on half a page, that their products were found free of toxic plasticizers and safe to drink advertising.
Plasticizer contamination scandal engulfed the island beverage and food industry, even in upscale restaurants and pharmacies by the sale of products of toxic substances.
Strong confidence that the people of Taiwan only in their food safety, has been shaken.
"I do not know what to eat. And even soft drinks, so common and easy, is not safe. How people like? I am really worried that this is only the beginning, there will be more bad things," Lee said, two children her late thirties, who refused to give her full name of the mother.
Lee worried, because her children who love soft drinks, this is the first discovery of toxic plasticizers pollution.
Lee made a bottle of dietary supplements, she has been eating, for toxicity testing.
As plasticizer contamination scandal, local government of Taiwan to provide free screening services for citizens.
Taipei health authorities under the table, as they began May 27 service, more than 2700 food and dietary supplements has been submitted to the review of local residents.
"The only way is to cook their own food, eat less food sold in the market," Lee said.
High-end restaurants from the supermarket
In mid-May, the Taiwan Department of Health announced that they found the food additive suppliers in the luxury ah toxic chemical illegally added Ltd. clouding agent and sales agent of the food and beverage production plasticizer DEHP, a large number of carcinogens.
Soon, the other foot addictive spice supplier Han joined the plasticizer DINP Ltd. also seize another it is caused by clouding agent.
The two companies replace the clouding agent with the plasticizer to reduce costs and improve performance of the palm oil component.
Clouding agent of the use of all customers by the two companies, including Uni-Point's leading beverage brands. Its product line includes sports drinks, bottled teas and juices.
According to the island's health sector, more than 780 products, including soft drinks, jams, juices and dietary supplements, has been found so far by the pollution of toxic plasticizers in the scandal involving at least 244 companies.
Following the packaging beverages, fruit juices and flavored tea shop selling cold drinks also found contamination.
Akin fruit juice vendor named Wang Wang Food Co., Ltd. is a Chemical Co. in the ah on credit to customers, and have been incorporated into the mixture of toxic cloudy, cold stores and then sold to agents in Taipei juice.
Prosecutors and the police to trace gold king king fruit client list, discover creative food company, the main fruit wholesalers. They seized about 5800 DEHP contaminated juice and after they raided the company, its warehouse suspected of cardboard boxes on Thursday afternoon.
The company has acknowledged that it provides juice of about 800 restaurants and cafes on the island, including some five-star hotel in Taipei do not know they were contaminated, said Jiang, Yu-mei, and the Taipei Department of Health spokesman.
Plasticizer contamination scandal could seriously harm the local beverage industry and the loss could be enormous, summer is the season of the industry, said Pan Jinxi, Taiwan Franchise Association, Ltd. Chairman of the Taiwan family.
Beverage sales in Taiwan, about 70 billion New Taiwan dollars (2.45 billion U.S. dollars), and from July to September are usually sold 40 percent of the annual accounts, he said.
In view of the impact of pollution scandals, sales in the coming months will likely fall thirty percent, he said.
He said: "plasticizer contamination scandal affect the sales of beverages is not obvious, but we think that this will reduce the 10-20% they said:" He Margery, public relations and RT-Mart International Limited, in Taipei's major supermarket manager.
Across the Taiwan Strait and worries
When the plasticizer scandal erupted in Taiwan, the Taiwan Strait promptly notify the other side.
The mainland authorities to suspend imports of contaminated products and the strengthening of food and drinks from the examinations in Taiwan. Hong Kong and Macau authorities have taken similar action.
In late May, Shanghai quarantine contaminated from Taiwan found that sports drinks 792 boxes. June 1, the Guangdong provincial government also announced that they found local food additives imported from Taiwan companies cloudy toxic agent.
In its latest update, the import ban on its website, the State General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) Administration said the mainland will be suspended 812 kinds of products, including beverages, food and food additives made of 245, import company.
In the blacklist, including asparagus juice made from the popular brand of unified enterprise, there are some products, such as child nutrition brand Karihome directly from the production of biotechnology companies in Taiwan.
This is not released by the State Administration of Quality Supervision June 1, when the AQSIQ said that the mainland from Taiwan will be suspended 22 drinks, food and food additives are imported by a variety of dubious company with double the original list of more (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP).
On Wednesday, the State Council, or Cabinet Food Safety Commission, ordered increased inspections and beverage, food and DEHP contamination and retailers immediately recalled from the wholesellers additives.
Mainland China State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) on Thursday ordered all restaurants do not buy or use food and food have been placed in the blacklist of the State Administration of Quality Supervision additives.
In addition, the SFDA ordered the two DEHP, the pollution will take the health food shelves, and suspended from the production on Friday.
Taiwan authorities have not given a place may have been contaminated products exported to clear the list.
Taiwan's health officials told Xinhua that the man surnamed Yang, because the two leading companies in the food additive long-term marketing and distribution networks are large and complex investigation to track the contaminated product, it takes time and tremendous effort.
Taiwan police have arrested Valley luxury ah Chemical Co., Ltd. spices and gold sales Wang Han Wang Food Co., the owners of fruit
Since May 31, five categories of food and beverage manufacturers have been ordered to issue a certificate to show their products are free of six types of plasticizers, the former product can be placed on the shelf.
This five products are sports drinks, fruit juices, tea drinks, jams, jellies and fruit syrups and capsules, tablets or powder form, which is clouding agent usually contain all the dietary supplements.
Environmental Protection Administration also announced that the island will strengthen the supervision of the plasticizer. They plan to increase the most stringent certification, including the eight plasticizer DEHP.
Entrepreneurs and industry analysts called for the establishment of a joint food security between China and Taiwan as the island's security system was contaminated drinks scandals brewing.
Economic cooperation framework agreement signed in 2010, the mainland and Taiwan to promote cross-strait trade, agriculture and food, which makes the need for joint systems, said Yang, blond, Taiwan Chamber of Commerce, Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province President.
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