KMT targets agency funds amid cooking oil scandal

‘WARNING BELL’: The FDA should have implemented stricter regulatory controls after an olive oil shipment was found to contain canola oil, KMT lawmakers said By Chen Cheng-yu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source The operating budgets of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Ministry of Health and Welfare should be cut from next month through December in response to the Central Union Oil Corp tainted cooking oil scandal, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers said yesterday.The proposal came a day after Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) of the KMT called on people to join a rally planned for Saturday to protest the Executive Yuan’s handling of the incident.The incident — in which Central Union Oil soybean oil was found to contain excessi