The Atomic Energy Council also said that the natural radioactivity contained in the salt substitutes would do no harm to the human body.
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/09/21
By: Teng Pei-ju, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiyen Biotech (台鹽生技) responded to the accusation made
Taiwan’s legislator said Taiyen’s salt substitutes contain high levels of radiation. (Source: CNA)
by Taiwan’s legislator Kao Chin Su-mei (高金素梅) at a news conference Thursday that three of the salt substitutes manufactured by the company contain high levels of radiation by quoting the statement of the country’s Atomic Energy Council (AEC，原能會) that the products’ containing natural radioactivity would do no harm to the human body but it also said it would send the ingredient of the salt substitutes, potassium chloride, for an assay.
Kao Chin said the report issued by the AEC’s Radiation Monitoring Center earlier in September discovered that among 18 samplings of edible salts that were tested, Taiyen’s three salt substitutes, Dietary Salt, Delicious Salt, and Natural Flavor Salt, contain high doses of Potassium-40 – 8,860 becquerel/kilometer (Bq/Kg), 5,063 Bq/Kg, and 5,063 Bq/Kg respectively – compared to other salt products sold in the domestic or global market. [FULL STORY]
