Controversy has broken out in the wake of a food contamination incident that led to two deaths. Two died after eating at the Polam Kopitiam location in the Far Eastern Department Store Xinyi A1 in downtown Taipei. The poisoning incidents occurred between March 19th and last Sunday...
A political controversy about a banned meat additive has become an object of partisan contestation between the KMT and DPP, with the KMT boycotting a report to the legislature by Premier Chen Chien-jen yesterday. The controversy led to back-and-forth before the Lunar New Year between the health authorities of the Food and Drug Administration and the Ministry of Health and Welfare...
Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) recently issued a statement reminding vendors who want to label their products as health foods that the limit on free sugar content in registered health food products is 25 grams or 6 teaspoons per serving. But this ultimately does not reduce the issue of the high amount of sugar in Taiwanese food...
