The sales revenue of the nation’s 15 freeway service areas last year dropped about 17 percent as a spike in locally COVID-19 transmitted cases affected travel, the Freeway Bureau said yesterday.
The surge in domestic cases led the Central Epidemic Command Center to raise the COVID-19 alert nationwide to level 3 in the middle of May last year. The alert lasted until July 27.
Under the level 3 alert, people were banned from dining in at restaurants, and shopping areas and food courts in the freeway service areas were closed during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday, which was unprecedented,
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Taiwan food companies reject ractopamine report from HK
06/04/2021 06:52 PM
A pig farm in Taiwan. CNA file photo
Taipei, June 4 (CNA) Two major food service companies in Taiwan on Friday rejected accusations detailed in a Hong Kong newspaper expose that their pork products contain excessive levels of ractopamine.
Hsin Tung Yang Co. and Black Bridge Foods Co. said the pork they use is ractopamine-free domestic pork, has passed the Certified Agricultural Standards (CAS) of Taiwan s Council of Agriculture and is free from safety concerns, following a Hong Kong based-Wenweipo story the previous day.
The companies said they are considering taking legal action against the newspaper for damaging their good name.