Two more contaminated oil batches found: FDA

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday said that two additional batches of cooking oil produced by Central Union Oil Corp had been found to contain excessive levels of the carcinogen benzopyrene.The contamination was traced to two tainted downstream products, bringing the total number of affected soybean-based cooking oil batches to seven of the 30 batches produced by the company from April to June, the agency said.The tainted oil has affected a total of 1,322 businesses, it added. PX Mart employees look on as a food safety inspector examines cooking oil products on sale. Photo courtesy of the Taichung City Government Food Safety Department As of 11am yesterday, 2,584.4 tonnes of contaminated oil products had been removed from shelves, while another 5,126.7 tonnes had been preemp