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The DPP Central Committee will import exquisite pigs containing lean meat to Taiwan in January next year to cause controversy. Taipei Mayor Ke Wenzhe revealed in an exclusive interview with “Apple News” that the DPP has not yet made it clear that it will open lean meat in January next year. Beautiful pig? Or allow all foreign pigs containing clenbuterol to go to Taiwan? If the latter is the case, it means that Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shizhong and Agriculture Council Chairman Chen Jizhong openly lied in the Legislative Yuan. If the future is to open up all foreign imports of pork containing clenbuterol, this is a deliberate hoax, and even he will take to the streets.
Ruling and opposition lawmakers are concerned that the government might label reformed staples, but why it can’t label meat or processed products that contain ractopamine. Health and Welfare Minister Chen Shizhong said that bleach is a residue of animal medicine, which is different from the basic reform concept, and there are many animal medicines, and only bleach has a discriminatory taste.
● The Council of Agriculture confirmed: The announcement of the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Council of Agriculture did not restrict the importation of pigs from the 26 countries.
Chen Shizhong once said publicly that if everything must be marked, “then there is nothing to eat”, I am afraid it is too alarmist, especially if the content of the bleach is within the limit standard, it is safe.
However, what Chen Shizhong did not highlight is that the opening of Lai Chi meat imports from next year is equivalent to opening to countries that use Lai Chi. This move also made Ke Wenzhe dissatisfied, who enthusiastically said in this tone: “Until now, the DPP is treated in good faith, but if it cheats deliberately, even Ke Wenzhe will take to the streets.”
“Apple” asked the Council of Agriculture to verify that China will open the importation of US pigs containing ractopamine (clenbuterol) in January next year Can pork be imported from other countries? Wenquan Chang Jiang, deputy director of the Livestock Department of the Agriculture Council, confirmed that neither the Ministry of Health and Welfare nor the announcements of the Agriculture Council currently limit the country. In other words, lysates containing pork can also be imported from other countries.
But Jiang Wenquan also emphasized that in countries that export pork to Taiwan, only the United States uses it in the production area, not Europe, and Canada can use it, but it is hardly used externally. Li Wanzhen, head of the Food and Drug Administration at the Ministry of Health and Welfare, also said that origin labeling now makes information transparent and available for consumers to purchase. Meat containing ractopamine can only be imported if it meets the standards and no additional labeling is required.
That is, after the importation of fine pigs containing lean meat opens in January next year, it will be the same as opening the importation of meat products from countries around the world that use lean meat. This means that in addition to the United States, it includes 26 lean meat products, including Canada, Mexico and Brazil. Refined countries can be imported into Taiwan without any conditions.
Regarding the ractopamine in clenbuterol, the Food and Drug Administration currently stipulates that the residual allocation for imported beef is 10 ppb (1 part per billion). Starting on New Years Day next year, it will be changed to 10 ppb for imported beef, pork and fat. Liver and kidney are 40 ppb, and other edible parts of pigs, including stomach, intestines, heart, lungs, tongue, belly, brain blood and other internal organs are also 10 ppb, but the cow skull, brain, eyes, spinal cord, minced meat and internal organs are still not allowed to enter.
● Opening of the import of pigs from all over the world Chen Jizhong: only the United States can enter
In response to Ke Jin’s Facebook post, “I will just ask one question. May I ask the central government of the Democratic Progressive Party: In January next year, Taiwan will open imports of American pigs or all pigs in the world containing ractopamine? ” In this regard, Chen Jizhong, chairman of the Council of Agriculture, said in a telephone interview with Apple tonight that Taiwan currently only allows 13 countries to export pork to Taiwan, and 9 of the 13 countries are from the European Union, such as Denmark, Spain, The Netherlands, etc., and the European Union do not use ractopamine, so it has no effect. Like the other four countries, the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
Chen Jizhong also said that ractopamine can be used in the world, that is, there are only 27 countries that have issued drug certificates, but pork from these 27 countries can be imported into Taiwan. Only the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia can and the other 23 The reason for this failure is that, if South Korea has African swine fever, and all the world trade, there is African swine fever, foot and mouth disease and other epidemic areas that do not comply with regulations. Among the four countries, New Zealand has never exported to Taiwan. Most Canadian farmers did not use ractopamine. Australia used to export a maximum of 10-20 metric tons of pork, but none of them used ractopamine.
Chen Jizhong emphasized that although the opening of security allocations is a standard for everyone, in fact, only the United States can enter. “He (Ke Wenzhe) should ask us (the Council of Agriculture) for all economic and trade information. , especially livestock. The most basic information on trade in products. “
Chen Jizhong also said that no one asked him at the end of today’s investigation. He also wondered, “How could we let in all the ractopamine pork in the world? After listening to it, I didn’t know what to say.”
The 27 countries or regions that use ractopamine are South Korea, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Malaysia. , Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Canada, the United States, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Barbados, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Hong Kong.
● Ke Wenzhe: I learned from the Yuan Legislative Caucus that the DPP is not just a beautiful pig
Ke Wenzhe said in an interview yesterday that, as he learned from the Yuan Legislative Caucus, the DPP not only opened exquisite pigs containing lean meat to Taiwan. He believed that 90% of Taiwanese did not know. In fact, the source of Taiwanese imported clenbuterol pork. At best it’s not the United States but Canada. Does the DPP need to make it clear if that means fine pigs containing lean meat or foreign pigs can enter? The United States is not the main importer and there are pigs containing clenbuterol in Canada and Spain.
Ke Wenzhe bluntly said that Meizhu is a communication management problem. Others call it “investing time.” In fact, it is the most “timely” and has not yet resisted. He’s been waiting for the DPP to clarify; I do not know how. When it comes to importing the backend doesn’t know how to deal with it, otherwise a bunch of mass spectrometers and other tests will suck for it, that’s a show.
Ke Wenzhe even pointed out that his attitude “is not deliberately hitting people, but giving them opportunities.” They will try to help you. If you are deliberately misled, your attitude is different. What are you doing? ”The largest importer in the future is Vietnam, which has the cheapest cost.
He said he did not know how the DPP would handle it. He hoped this country was responsible and willing to communicate. I knew he was also willing to help because of the American diplomatic pressure (opening the American pigs). He advocated source management, which would be handled well later, but The DPP cannot deliberately mislead.
● Directly approve the central government’s refusal to communicate Ke: Is this the DPP’s democracy?
Ke Wenzhe’s Facebook post at 6pm tonight continued to question the import policy for American pigs and cattle. Ke said that people have asked a lot, but got few answers. Today he only asked one question: “Is it the American pigs or all the pigs in the world that contain ractopamine?” In August, President Tsai Ing-wen, Health Minister Fu Chen Shizhong, and Agriculture Council Chairman Chen Jizhong repeatedly insisted that the central government label the place of origin. If people are concerned about eating American pigs that contain Laiji, they should look at the label at the place of production; But according to the announcement of September 17 According to the “Animal Drug Residue Standard”, not only American pigs, but also pork imported to Taiwan from all over the world allows ractopamine residues. In other words, the use of ractopamine is not allowed in Taiwanese pigs.
Ke Wenzhe said the government appears to have refused to communicate. Under the opaque and asymmetric state of information, he issued a letter demanding that the local government amend the autonomous regulations to cooperate with the central government. “Is this the democracy of the DPP?”
● Approved by Housewives Alliance: The announcement of the Ministry of Health and Welfare is misleading that the place of origin is false
According to data provided by the Council of Agriculture, Taiwan consumes 900,000 metric tons of pork per year. In 2018, the supply of Taiwanese hot pigs was 630,000 metric tons, accounting for 70%, 190,000 metric tons of frozen Taiwanese pigs accounted for 21%, and 80,000 metric tons of frozen imported pigs accounted for 8%. %, of which US pigs only represent 13% of imported pigs, about 10,000 metric tons.
In the last five years (2015 to 2019), the main pork importing countries were 40% in Canada, 17% in Spain, 15% in Denmark, 10% in the United States, 8% in the Netherlands and another 10%.
The Council of Agriculture confirmed that pork containing Laiji will not be restricted to the United States in the future, and that pork from all countries can be imported if it meets the standards. Zhang Yuling, managing director of the Housewives Alliance, criticized that the Ministry of Health and Welfare said that only labeling the place of origin “is basically a false label”, which not only misleads consumers, but also fails to identify risks. .
Zhang Yuling explained that the government had always focused on American pigs, leading people to think that only American pigs contained lysine and that they would only look at the place of origin when purchasing, leading to incorrect targeting. The government should directly require manufacturers to directly label pork products as to whether they contain lecithin, so that consumers can identify them. Housewives Alliance will continue to lobby legislators, the Council of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
(Lin Yuanling, Chen Sihao, Chen Yiwen, Xu Zhijia, Tang Zhenyu / Taipei Report)
