The Consumer Protection Com-mission said on Sunday that 15 percent of the products it surveyed recently were improperly labeled.
In its annual survey, conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the commission examined more than 30,000 products randomly selected from retail outlets in the nation's 25 cities and counties between March 15 and April 20.
Liu Ching-fang (劉清芳), director of the commission's supervision and coordination department, said the commission had inspected 34,891 products this year, compared with 27,069 products surveyed last year.
He said that 15 percent of the products surveyed this year were found to be poorly labeled, a ratio similar to last year.
Miaoli County, Kaohsiung City, Pingtung County and Taitung County had made greater improvements than other counties on product labeling, Liu said.
Garments and textiles accounted for the largest portion of products surveyed, Liu said, with towels forming the bulk of products examined in this category.
Most of the inadequately labeled towels did not clearly indicate the name, telephone number and address of the manufacturer, or the product's place of origin, Liu said.
Home appliances, stationery items and toys had the lowest ratio, at 15 percent, of inadequately labeled products, while incense sticks and related products had the highest ratio, at 66 percent, Liu said.
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