Taipei prosecutors are probing two livestock feed processors that purchased industrial-grade copper sulfate to see if they illegally sold the chemical to downstream processors or farmers, prosecutors said yesterday.
The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office also said the owner of Weihe, the company that sold the industrial-grade copper sulfate to the feed processors, surnamed Fan (范), was given a deferred prosecution on Tuesday for violations of the Feed Control Act (飼料管理法).
Fan purchased 6,025kg of the chemical from Amia Co in Taoyuan County in February last year and sold it to other feed processors, knowing that his company did not have a permit to sell feed products, the office said.
It said prosecutors would review related files from the Council of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Administration and probe the two feed companies to determine if they have also violated the act. Hsu Kuei-sen (許桂森), director of the Animal Husbandry Department, said on Wednesday that Weihe had illegally sold the industrial chemical to four feed processors.
Meanwhile, Taoyuan prosecutors launched investigations on Monday into the circulation of the chemical to see if it had been sold to chicken and hog farmers.
Feed-grade copper sulfate is usually mixed into livestock feed as a dietary supplement. However, industrial-grade copper sulfate, used in the manufacturing of printing ink and batteries, contains heavy metals, such as lead and chromium, and is harmful to animals and humans.
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