Cabinet spokesman Ting Yi-ming, left, Premier Su Tseng-chang, second right, and others on Friday eat at the restaurant that won this year’s Taipei Beef Noodle Championship. Li has said that the winning dish at the Taipei Beef Noodle Festival last month used US beef containing ractopamine residue, Lin said. While Ting and Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) after the controversy ate at the restaurant and apologized, they did not compensate for the damage done to its reputation and that of other beef noodle restaurants, Lin said. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration is abusing the beef noodle industry for their own gain, as it wants to legitimize its plan for easing restrictions on the import of US pork containing the feed additive, he said. Ting’s behavior jeopardizes the trust between the central and local governments, and the reputation of beef noodle restaurants, Chiang said.

Source: Taipei Times November 14, 2020 15:56 UTC