BAD EGG?A KMT official said the premier must hold Tsai Ing-wen to the standards he demanded of Ma Ying-jeou, while a lawmaker asked if graft might cause a scandal
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 20, 2017
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Premier William Lai (賴清德) should hold President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration and the fipronil-tainted eggs scandal to the same strict standards he demanded of then-president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) during the 2014 tainted cooking oil scandals, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) said yesterday.
The Taipei Department of Health on Monday announced that it has sent a large batch of eggs discovered last week to have been contaminated by the insecticide back to Tainan, where they originated, to be destroyed, KMT Culture and Communications Committee deputy director-general Hung Meng-kai (洪孟楷) told a Taipei news conference.
The discovery of more tainted eggs came after the central government told the public on Aug. 18 that all fipronil-tainted eggs had been accounted for and that eggs on the market were safe for consumption, which showed that Council of Agriculture and Ministry of Health of Welfare efforts to curb the distribution of tainted eggs had failed, Hung said.
As Tainan mayor, Lai had criticized Ma for “shifting the responsibility” of preventing substandard cooking oils being produced from his administration to local governments, Hung said. [FULL STORY]