President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Aug. 28 announced that Taiwan would ease restrictions on imports of US pork containing ractopamine and beef from cattle aged 30 months or older. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators in Taipei yesterday call for food safety laws to be amended due to the proposed import of US pork containing ractopamine. The KMT also criticized the government’s handling of whether or not pork fat would require country of origin labeling. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late on Monday published draft amendments to food labeling requirements whereby, with the exception of cases where pork fat itself is the product, food products containing pork fat would be exempt from country of origin labeling for the pork fat ingredient. It would also seek to amend Article 23 of the School Health Act to prohibit the use of meat containing ractopamine, or processed meat products containing meat that has traces of ractopamine, in school meals, she said.

Source: Taipei Times September 09, 2020 15:56 UTC