Formosa News
Date: 2018/05/07

Ads for food products in Taiwan often contain exaggerations, such as claims of a medicinal nature. Such statements are fined time and again by Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration, but because the fines are too low, producers pay little heed. Now, the FDA is planning to up the ante.

Until now, companies penalized for false advertising have been fined NT$40,000 no matter the number of infractions. Now the FDA wants to change the process so that a first-time offense could get a fine of up to NT$80,000 Taiwan dollars, and the sum will increase for repeat offenders, reaching up to NT$4 million dollars by the fifth offense. In serious cases, the FDA will even have the power to force the firm to cease trading.
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