Radio Taiwan International
Date: 31 August, 2020
By: Katherine Wei

Health Minister Chen Shih-chung says that relaxing Taiwan’s policy on the import of US meat products will help Taiwan in future international negotiations. Chen was speaking during a radio interview Monday.

On Friday, President Tsai Ing-wen announced that Taiwan will be lifting restrictions for importing pork with ractopamine residue and opening the market to US beef from cattle aged 30 months and older. This is a major reversal of Tsai and the Democratic Progressive Party’s longtime stance on not importing meat containing traces of ractopamine, a controversial leanness-promoting additive to pig feed.      [FULL  STORY]