FDA denies cooking oil sampling rumor

OBJECTIVITY: The watchdog said that ‘food safety issues should return to facts and science,’ and that it would continue to enforce guidance based on scientific evidence By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter Add TT as Preferred Source Random sampling of 275 cooking oil and fats products between 2022 and last year all complied with the legal limit for the carcinogen benzopyrene, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday, denying a rumor that 60 percent of oil products have failed testing since 2023.Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅?萁) on Thursday last week cited data presented by Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Lin Shu-fen (林淑芬) at a meeting a day before, saying that an FDA report in 2021 showed initial Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) i