Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/12/14
By: Chang Ming-hsun and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, Dec. 14 (CNA) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Wednesday that it has rejected
(Photo courtesy of the Food and Drug Administration)
the entry to Taiwan of five brands of Japanese natto seized a day earlier at Taichung Port after they were found to contain packets of soy sauce from two radiation-affected Japanese prefectures from which foodstuffs are banned from entering Taiwan.
The soy sauce packaged with the five brands of natto, which weighed at total of 187 kilograms and was imported by the Taichung store of Japanese supermarket chain Yumaowu Capita’n, came from Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures, according to the FDA.
Taiwan banned food imports from Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma and Chiba prefectures after the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011.
The FDA launched an inspection of food products from Japan sold in stores and supermarkets around Taiwan after it was discovered Dec. 11 that the soy sauce packaged with two brands of Japanese natto available in Taiwan was produced in Ibaraki Prefecture. [FULL STORY]
