Continuing its investigation into fish feed, the Council of Agriculture (COA) yesterday said it had preliminarily concluded that the 180,000kg of potentially tainted fish feed that had been sold to the market had reached seven fish farms, though the council was not ruling out the possibility that more fish farms have been affected.
The investigation started on Wednesday after the COA found that 36,000kg of squid meal, which was imported from South Korea and was to be used as a fish food ingredient, was possibly contaminated with melamine.
Yesterday, COA deputy minister Hu Sing-hwa (胡興華) said that while the possibly contaminated squid meal had been made into 21,000kg of fish feed, about 180,000kg of it had been sold.
“[Among the seven downstream fish farms that bought the feed], five had been sampled for lab analysis to investigate melamine contents,” Hu said.
Hu said that the fish farms were scattered throughout southern Taiwan, but he declined to elaborate on the exact locations.
The lab test results, Hu said, would be available within two days.
“The COA’s tolerance level for melamine in fish feed is zero,” Hu said, adding that “in the future, imported squid meal must have certification saying that they do not contain melamine.”
The National Immigration Agency (NIA) said yesterday that it will revoke the dependent-based residence permit of a Chinese social media influencer who reportedly “openly advocated for [China’s] unification through military force” with Taiwan. The Chinese national, identified by her surname Liu (劉), will have her residence permit revoked in accordance with Article 14 of the “Measures for the permission of family- based residence, long-term residence and settlement of people from the Mainland Area in the Taiwan Area,” the NIA said in a news release. The agency explained it received reports that Liu made “unifying Taiwan through military force” statements on her online
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