Taiwan has seven certified laboratories that have the capacity to inspect 70,000 food products per year, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said yesterday in a bid to assure the public about food safety.
After the government on Tuesday announced an end to an 11-year ban on food from Fukushima, Gunma, Chiba, Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures that was implemented after the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster, Su yesterday inspected the food radiation testing laboratory at the Atomic Energy Council’s Institute of Nuclear Energy Research (INER) in Taoyuan.
The nation has seven laboratories certified by international organizations for testing radioactive residues in food
Around-the-clock care is needed to sustain the nation’s only liger, blighted by genetic deformities as a living reminder of the tragedy that can result from human greed.
A-piao (阿彪) staggers about his enormous enclosure, his faint tiger stripes glistening in the slanted winter sun before he flops to the ground.
Lazily turning to show onlookers his exposed belly, he exudes the same ease as his distant domesticated cousins, yet something is clearly unusual about this feline.
His left hind leg, rigid and immobile, extends from his side like a crutch as he gazes forward with the face of a lion. Yet this
By Chen Yan-ting and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerAround-the-clock care is needed to sustain the nation’s only liger, blighted by genetic deformities as a living reminder of the tragedy that can result from human greed.
Researchers have attributed an outbreak of baldness among Formosan macaques in Kaohsiung’s Shoushan National Nature Park on the twin stresses of a high population density and less generous tourists.
Park authorities in 2015 enlisted the aid of National Pingtung University of Science and Technology amid concern that the monkeys were experiencing hair loss which first appeared in 2013 because of an unknown infectious disease, the park administration office said on Sunday.
However, a study released by the university last year blamed high levels of stress for the appearance of alopecia among the park’s primate population.
Chen Chen-chih (陳貞志), an associate professor
THE BALD TRUTH: A campaign to stop people from feeding Formosan macaques in the mountains has left the monkeys hungry and stressed out, an expert said/ Staff writer, with CNA