Chiang rallies local governments, KMT over oil scare

By Lo Kuo-chia, Liu Wan-lin and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source Local governments should work closely with the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) legislative caucus to ensure that the central government takes responsibility for the contaminated cooking oil incident, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) said yesterday. Since the government received the first report on June 30, batches of Central Union Oil Corp’s (中聯油脂) soybean cooking oil have been found to contain benzopyrene, a carcinogen, above the legal limit. To date, neither the premier nor the Minister of Health and Welfare has taken responsibility or stepped down over the incident, while Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesman Justin Wu’s (吳崢) 7 remarks highlight what Chiang described as th