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Consumers’ Foundation urges probe after pesticide survey Staff writer, with CNA Two batches of fresh peas that were in October last year collected in a random sampling survey have been found to contain excessive pesticide residue, the Consumers’ Foundation said on Friday. For the survey, snap peas, snow peas, which are also known as Chinese pea pods, corn and cabbage were sampled from traditional markets and supermarkets in Taipei, New Taipei City, Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung. The samples were sourced from 18 vendors and tested for traces of pesticides, such as carbofuran, cl...

根據「電腦網路內容分級處理辦法」修正條文第六條第三款規定，已於網站首頁或各該限制級網頁，依台灣網站分級推廣基金會規定作標示。 台灣網站分級推廣基金會（TICRF）網站：http://www.ticrf.org.tw 《TAIPEI TIMES》 NHI premium being raised to 5.17 percent: ministry A man looks a...

NHI premium being raised to 5.17 percent: ministry By Wu Liang-yi and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer The Ministry of Health and Welfare yesterday announced that starting today, the National Health Insurance (NHI) premium is to be increased to 5.17 percent from 4.69 percent. The ministry in November last year announced that the NHI premium would be increased, but it had yet to decide on the new rate. Of the options discussed at the time — 4.97 percent, and 5.47 percent to 5.52 percent — neither was chosen, it said. A man looks at his smartphone as he passes the National H...

Ministry studies increasing track sizes on east coast to allow for faster travel Staff writer, with CNA The Ministry of Transportation and Communications is studying the feasibility of increasing the track gauge of the Taiwan Railways Administration’s (TRA) east coast rail network to allow trains to travel faster, the Railway Bureau said on Sunday. A feasibility study on increasing the track gauge from “narrow gauge” (106.7cm) to “standard gauge” (143.5cm) has been included in a research plan to allow express trains on the network to reach a maximum speed of 160kph from the current ...

Consumers in Taiwan have offered their signatures to a petition against importing pork and beef containing ractopamine, with 196,830 signatures secured as of Tuesday, according to the Consumers' Foundation, Chinese Taipei. Ractopamine   Taiwan pork The organization strongly opposes the island authority's adoption of this policy without proper scientific evaluation of the risks, and it urges the authority to suspend the policy, the organization said in a press release. The Taiwan authority announced on Aug. 28 that it would set standards for residues of the animal-feed additive ractopamine i...