Camellia oil company fined NT$3m

DECEPTIVE: The company could not provide evidence that tea seeds from Alishan were used to manufacture the oil, contradicting advertising claims, inspectors said By Hollie Younger / Staff writer, with CNA Add TT as Preferred Source Dynas International Corp (威加國際) has been fined NT$3 million (US$92,914) after failing to provide evidence to verify that its camellia oil was produced from Alishan (阿里山)-grown tea seeds, the Taipei Department of Health said yesterday. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week received a report from Yuen Foong Yu Biotech (永豐餘生技) that said several batches of camellia oil contained 2.9 micrograms per kilogram (mcg/kg) of the carcinogen benzopyrene, exceeding Taiwan’s legal limit of 2mcg/kg. The tainted batches were produced by Yuan Chuen Oil Mill (源春製油廠) in