KMT stages rally following tainted cooking oil scandal

By Kayleigh Madjar / Staff writer, with CNA Add TT as Preferred Source The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday held a rally on Ketagalan Boulevard in Taipei calling for the president to apologize and for the premier to step down over a food safety scandal involving a carcinogenic compound found in cooking oil produced by Central Union Oil Corp (中聯油脂).The “I am human, I oppose a toxic Taiwan” rally started at 5pm. By 7:14pm, the organizers said that the turnout had surpassed 150,000.The KMT called the rally in response to findings that seven batches of raw soybean cooking oil produced by Central Union Oil from April to last month had excessive levels of the carcinogen benzopyrene. Protesters hold up signs calling for better food safety policies during a rally on Ketagalan Boulevard in