The Tainan District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday indicted owners of Beei Hae Oil and Fats Co (北海油脂) on charges of fraud and violating the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation (食品安全衛生管理法) for allegedly producing and selling adulterated oil.
Investigations uncovered that Lu Ching-hsieh (呂青協) and Huang Li-hua (黃麗華), husband-and-wife owners of the Tanan-based Beei Hae Oil and Fats Co, since January last year allegedly bought 965 tonnes of low-grade fats and oils which were not permitted for human consumption, including animal-feed oil and subcutaneous fat layers from hog hides intended for making leather products, for mixing with their own cooking oil.
The resulting mix was allegedly processed through the company’s distillation and refining operation to produce assorted lard oil and cooking oil products, with the sale of at least 1,511 tonnes for illicit gains of about NT$77.22 million (US$2.51 million), investigators said.
Prosecutors said the owners manufactured the adulterated oil from ingredients not permitted for human consumption, just to save on costs and reap higher profits.
They allegedly sold the products to 110 food companies in Taiwan, as well as exporting 218 tonnes to Hong Kong, investigators said.
Accusing the owners of producing and selling adulterated oil with a disregard for the possible damage to the health of consumers, and continuing to refuse to admit their guilt, the prosecutors yesterday requested the court impose the maximum punishment possible.
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