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Legislators call for Chinese food boycott

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators called for a boycott of Chinese food products after a Chinese company sold toxic milk powder to Taiwan.

DPP Legislator Twu Shiing-jer (�?�) suggested all products that are not made in China be marked “China-free.”

DPP Legislator Pan Meng-an (潘孟安) said his caucus would propose an amendment to the Commodity Labeling Law (商品標示法) requiring all products to mark the country of origin in prominent places.

Pan suggested product labels describe the “place of origin of main ingredients” and “final country or territory of processing.”

Pan said that before the recent incident, Chinese companies have exported various unsafe products to the country, including Puer tea contaminated with pesticides and shellfish containing chemicals that might cause cancer.

He said EU statistics show that more than 80 percent of unsafe products imported to EU countries last year were from China.

Pan said that unsafe Chinese products had become “enemies of the world” and that during this year’s US Democratic primary, the two candidates both advocated boycotts of unsafe Chinese goods.

Meanwhile, Pan said, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has been allowing more and more Chinese goods to enter the country without serious checks.



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