Twenty Taiwanese importers have applied to seek compensation for losses incurred as a result of melamine-tainted products imported from China earlier this year, the head of the Department of Health said in a report to be presented to the legislature tomorrow.
Health Minister Yeh Ching-chuan (葉金川) said in the report released yesterday that his agency had already sent faxes to Taiwanese importers to inform them that the department would assist them in filing claims for compensation.
He said 31 companies had responded, including 20 that said they would seek compensation.
Yeh said that as the compensation claims involve judicial matters, the department had hired a team of lawyers to offer consultation services to Taiwanese importers and to help ensure that their evidence was valid.
The department has also asked county and city health departments around the country to send documents related to the claims to the department so that it can forward them to the Mainland Affairs Council for processing, he said.
The release of the report came just days after the department received an e-mail from China's Shandong Duqing Co in which the company admitted finding melamine in samples of non-dairy creamer it exported to Taiwan.
The uproar over tainted food products from China was sparked in the middle of September, when it was discovered that 25 tonnes of milk powder imported from China's Sanlu Group in June was tainted with the chemical.
Since then, milk powders, creamers and other milk-derived ingredients or products from China have been found to contain melamine and removed from store shelves at considerable expense to their suppliers.
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