FDA to adjust food safety measures

UNRELIABLE: As results produced by CUOC do not match those of downstream companies, there could be a problem in the sampling process, the ministry said By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter A discrepancy has been found between the benzopyrene test results of Central Union Oil Corp’s (CUOC) cooking oil samples and the cooking oil products of its downstream companies, so the case is being handed over to prosecutors for investigation, Minister of Health and Welfare Shih Chung-liang (石崇良) said yesterday, as he also outlined four food safety improvement measures.The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 30 received the first report from CUOC that a batch of its soy cooking oil was found to contain traces of the carcinogen benzopyrene exceeding the legal limit.Two more batches contaminated with be