KFC faces fine after battery found in egg tartBy Hsu Li-chuan and Sam Garcia / Staff reporter, with staff writerA KFC branch in Kaohsiung is to be fined up to NT$200 million (US$6.37 million), after a customer yesterday found an entire AAA battery inside an egg tart, the Kaohsiung Department of Health said today. The customer filmed themself taking the egg tart apart to reveal an entire AAA battery inside, which apparently showed signs of damage. A battery is pictured inside an egg tart in Kaohsiung yesterday. The store said that a lapse in adhering to standard operating procedures allowed a foreign object to mistakenly enter the product during production, it said. The employee also failed to discard the entire batch in accordance with standard operating procedures, it added.

Source: Taipei Times February 11, 2026 09:39 UTC