The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expanding its definition of baby food to include all food products that display an image of an infant or contain the words “infants” or “toddlers” (嬰幼兒) on its outer packaging, it said on Saturday.
The Consumers’ Foundation in December last year said that among 20 rice-based foods it randomly sampled for testing, four contained higher-than-allowed levels of cadmium, but as rice crackers were considered general food, rather than baby food, despite their packaging, they met the standards for adult consumption.
The allowable maximum levels of contaminants and toxins in food for adults and infants differ
2021/03/03 15:42 Cadina chips contain excessive acrylamide (Taipei City Department of Health photo) Cadina chips contain excessive acrylamide (Taipei City Department of Health photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A well-known potato chip brand in Taiwan has removed one of its products from shelves after it was found to contain a carcinogen exceeding allowed levels. The product is Cadina’s tempura-flavor chips (卡迪那全天然洋芋天婦羅口味), produced by Lian Hwa Foods Corporation, a long-standing local business. An amount of 1,202 ppb acrylamide was detected in a sample of the crisps, surpassing the safety limit of 1,000 ppb. The discovery was made during an inspection on acrylamide levels in foods from fast-food chains, breakfast stores, coffee shops, traditional markets, and retailers by Taipei’s Department of Health (DOH). A total of 20 samples were examined, including French fries, potato chips, coffee,
Baby crackers recalled over packaging problem
Staff writer, with CNA
A food company on Tuesday said it is recalling a line of baby rice crackers after local health officials said it illegally used nitrogen in food packaging.
New Taipei City-based Chanyue International Co (展裕國際) said in a statement on its Web site that it on Monday started a nationwide recall of “LeVic Babies Rice Cookie,” after its use of nitrogen in packaging raised health concerns.
Customers who have bought the crackers can return them for a refund or a replacement, it said, adding that it would send samples from the recalled items to a third-party certification body for tests.
LeVic Babies Rice Cookie recalled over safety concerns
03/02/2021 09:57 PM
Photo courtesy of the New Taipei City Department of Health
Taipei, March 2 (CNA) A New Taipei-based food company is recalling a baby rice cracker product after local health officials found evidence the firm was illegally using nitrogen in food packaging.
In a statement published on its website Tuesday, Chanyue International Co. announced it decided to recall LeVic Babies Rice Cookie from shelves around Taiwan from Monday, after its use of nitrogen for product packaging raised health concerns.
The company is offering customers refunds, returns or replacements and will send the recalled items to a third party certification body to conduct food safety tests.
The Taipei District Court on Wednesday ruled in favor of snack food producer Kuai Kuai Co (乖乖) in a lawsuit arising from a tainted oil scandal, ordering Ting Hsin Oil and Fat Industrial Co (頂新製油實業) to pay NT$9.8 million (US$346,829) in compensation for revenue loss and expenditure resulting from product recalls.
The ruling can be appealed.
Kuai Kuai filed the lawsuit in 2017 seeking compensation after having to recall two snack products, following a consumer health scare from a series of adulterated food and tainted oil scandals in 2013 and 2014, embroiling a number of food material suppliers and end