Two former senior executives of a cooking oil company were each sentenced on Tuesday to one year and four months in prison, suspended for two years, and NT$25 million (US$821,000) in fines for mixing cheaper oils into the company’s well-known “pure” sesame oil products sold in Taiwan.
In addition to the sentences given to former Flavor Full Foods Inc (富味鄉) chairman Chen Wen-nan (陳文南) and his brother, Chen Jui-li (陳瑞禮), technical development director at Flavor Full, the company itself was fined NT$5 million.
Four others at the firm — research and development center manager Lin Jui-tsung (林瑞聰), supplies section head Liu Chi-wei (劉騏瑋) and two technicians — were found not guilty on the grounds that they were not policymakers for the marketing and labeling of the company’s products.
The Changhua District Prosecutors’ Office indicted the Chen brothers and four employees late last year on charges of fraud and contravening the Act Governing Food Sanitation (食品衛生管理法) by mixing cheaper oil into so-called 100 percent pure sesame oil products since December 2009.
The Changhua District Court acquitted all six of the defendants of the fraud charges due to inadequate evidence.
Tuesday’s sentence for the Chen brothers was decided after judges considered their admission of wrongdoing and their willingness to recall the adulterated products and make improvements in product labeling, as well as their pledges to make donations for the public good.
Flavor Full Foods is the largest sesame oil producer in Taiwan and the second-largest in the world.
Eight restaurants in Taiwan yesterday secured a one-star rating from the Michelin Guide Taiwan for the first time, while three one-star restaurants from last year’s edition were promoted to two stars. Forty-three restaurants were awarded one star this year, including 34 in Taipei, five in Taichung and four in Kaohsiung. Hosu (好嶼), Chuan Ya (川雅), Sushi Kajin (鮨嘉仁), aMaze (心宴), La Vie by Thomas Buhner, Yuan Yi (元一) and Frassi in Taipei and Front House (方蒔) in Kaohsiung received a one-star rating for the first time. Hosu is known for innovative Taiwanese dishes, while Chuan Ya serves Sichuan cuisine and aMaze specializes
Taitung County is to launch charter flights to Malaysia at the end of this year, after setting up flights to Vietnam and Thailand, the Taitung County Government said yesterday. The new charter flight services, provided by low-cost carrier Batik Air Malaysia, would be part of five-day tour packages for visits to Taitung County or Malaysia. The Batik Air charter flight, with about 200 seats, would take Malaysian tourists to Taitung on Dec. 30 and then at 12:35pm return to Kuala Lumpur with Taiwanese tourists. Another charter flight would bring the Taiwanese home on Jan. 3 next year, arriving at 5:30pm, before taking the
Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp. (THSRC) plans to ease strained capacity during peak hours by introducing new fare rules restricting passengers traveling without reserved seats in 2026, company Chairman Shih Che (史哲) said Wednesday. THSRC needs to tackle its capacity issue because there have been several occasions where passengers holding tickets with reserved seats did not make it onto their train in stations packed with individuals traveling without a reserved seat, Shih told reporters in a joint interview in Taipei. Non-reserved seats allow travelers maximum flexibility, but it has led to issues relating to quality of service and safety concerns, especially during
An exhibition celebrating Taiwan and Japan’s comic culture opened on Saturday in Taichung, featuring a section that explores Taiwanese reproductions of Japanese comics from when martial law limited Japanese representation. “A Century of Manga Culture: An Encounter of Taiwan and Japan’s Youth” held its Taiwan opening ceremony at Taichung’s National Taiwan Museum of Comics after an initial one-month run in Japan’s Kyoto International Manga Museum between May 24 and June 24. Much like the Kyoto exhibition, the show mainly celebrates the comic connection between Taiwan and Japan through late Taiwanese comic book
RSS