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• Nearly 4,000kg of tainted intestines sold: FDA

  • Staff writer, with CNA
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  Nearly 4,000kg of tainted pork intestines were sold to intermediary buyers in four cities and counties, of which more than half has been removed from the market and more than 1,000kg sold in Taipei is still being accounted for, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday.

  According to prosecutors, a vendor in Pingtung County, Pai Wei Foods Co, and its employees were found to have soaked spoiled pork intestines in industrial-grade hydrogen peroxide to disguise them as fresh in an attempt to make illegal profits.

  In a statement late on Saturday, the FDA said it had identified 3,795kg of tainted intestines that Pai Wei Foods sold to intermediary buyers in Taoyuan, Taipei, Pingtung and Kaohsiung.

  

  Kaohsiung Department of Health officials inspect pork products at a market in the city yesterday.

  Photo courtesy of the Kaohsiung Department of Health

  Of that total, 2,159kg of intestines sold to Great Chan Shun Foods, a food processing company in Taoyuan, were removed from the market on Saturday night, said Wei Jen-ting (魏任廷), head of the FDA’s southern management center.

  As of last night, the FDA had confirmed that a 180kg batch of the intestines sold to a buyer in Pingtung had already been sold to customers.

  Of the 126kg sold to a frozen foods company in Kaohsiung, 90kg was destroyed by the company, while 36kg was sold to a purveyor of ship provisions, Wei said.

  The status of the remaining quantity, a 1,330kg batch of intestines sold to a person listed in Pai Wei Foods’ business records as “Taipei Ningxia Market Mr Chen,” remains significantly less clear.

  Wei described Chen as a “vendor,” and said that Chen had already sold all 1,330kg of tainted intestines to various clients.

  To date, only 145kg of the intestines Chen sold — 75kg to a mapo tofu vendor in Ningxia Night Market and 70kg to a noodle restaurant in Taipei’s Ximending (西門町) area — have been located and removed to be destroyed, Wei said.

  In a statement yesterday, the Ningxia Night Market Tourism Association said that none of its pork intestine vendors are surnamed Chen, and speculated that “Mr Chen” may be a seller at Huannan Wholesale Market, where the intestine vendors source their products.

  According to Pingtung prosecutors, the owner and four employees of Pai Wei Foods were questioned on Wednesday on suspicion of contravening the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation (食品安全衛生管理法) and fraud under the Criminal Code.

  They were later released on pre-charge bail ranging from NT$80,000 to NT$500,000, prosecutors said.

  Aside from the 3,795kg of tainted intestines that were released into the market, another 11,664kg were seized from the company’s main facility in Pingtung and another 940kg were seized from storage in New Taipei City, the FDA said.
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