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Taiwan food companies reject ractopamine report from HK
06/04/2021 06:52 PM
A pig farm in Taiwan. CNA file photo
Taipei, June 4 (CNA) Two major food service companies in Taiwan on Friday rejected accusations detailed in a Hong Kong newspaper expose that their pork products contain excessive levels of ractopamine.
Hsin Tung Yang Co. and Black Bridge Foods Co. said the pork they use is ractopamine-free domestic pork, has passed the Certified Agricultural Standards (CAS) of Taiwan s Council of Agriculture and is free from safety concerns, following a Hong Kong based-Wenweipo story the previous day.
The companies said they are considering taking legal action against the newspaper for damaging their good name.
Pork consumption in Taiwan has increased by thousands of tonnes, while no shipment of US pork imports has tested positive for ractopamine, the Executive Yuan said yesterday.
Executive Yuan Secretary-General Li Meng-yen (李孟諺) relayed Premier Su Tseng-chang’s (蘇貞昌) remarks at a Council of Agriculture policy briefing on the country’s pig farming industry at a news conference in Taipei.
Su was cited as saying that the government did not find ractopamine in more than 400 shipments of foreign pork imports inspected this year.
Although critics have said that US pork imports would put pricing pressure on domestic pork, consumption of domestic pork this year