Seven raw cooking oil batches fail safety tests

RIGOROUS TESTING: More samples were found to be toxic as the Taichung City Government tried to explain why bit had not regularly tested CUOC’s output itself By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter Add TT as Preferred Source Seven out of 30 batches of raw cooking oil produced by Central Union Oil Corp (CUOC, 中聯油脂) from April to June were found to have excessive levels of the carcinogen benzopyrene, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday, It said an independent investigation team would visit CUOC today to assess the company’s production and quality management, and that it would put forward the proposal for amending the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation (食品安全衛生管理法) and related regulations this week. Test results of CUOC’s raw cooking oil and downstream oil products were released