A drink shop in Taichung’s Yizhong Street Commercial Area (一中商圈) was suspended yesterday after a customer said they found a cockroach egg in their drink.
The customer, surnamed Lin (林), said she bought a drink from the shop on Saturday and felt a strange substance while sipping her beverage.
After spitting it out, she found a rectangular, reddish-brown object with textured surface and serrated edges, which she said appeared to be a cockroach egg.
Photo: Taipei Times
However, the clerk insisted the substance was buckwheat and attempted to prove it by crushing it in their hand, which resulted in a “juicy” substance spraying out, almost hitting her, she said.
The shop refunded the order and made her another drink, but Lin said she did not dare drink it.
The Taichung Office of Food and Drug Safety yesterday said it had dispatched personnel to inspect the shop.
The store would be required to improve within a deadline if it is found to not be in compliance with the Regulations on Good Hygiene Practices for Food (食品良好衛生規範準則), it said, adding that the shop could face a fine of NT$60,000 or more if it fails subsequent inspections.
The shop apologized and initiated a disinfection of the store.
Yang Chen-chang (楊振昌), director of occupational medicine and clinical toxicology at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, said that cockroaches are an important issue in public health management, as they can carry more than 40 pathogens that might cause leprosy, dysentery, typhoid fever or food poisoning.
Freezing their eggs at minus-16°C or heating them at 50°C for six hours could effectively kill them.
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