Taichung deputy mayor slams legislator as 'rumormongering demon' over oil checks

Taichung city officials have strongly refuted claims made by Democratic Progressive Party legislator Lin Yueh-chin regarding the city's oil product inspections. Deputy Mayor Cheng Chao-hsin labeled Lin a "rumormongering demon" for allegedly misrepresenting the number of inspections conducted. Cheng stated that Lin's claim of Taichung conducting only one inspection was off by a factor of 72, and that the city has actually checked 72 items. He released a list of 194 businesses, including the Ministry of National Defense's welfare department and various retailers, whose products are linked to the Zhonglian Oil incident and must be removed from shelves. The Taichung Department of Food and Drug Safety emphasized that over the past five years, they have inspected 89 edible oil factories and tested 230 products. In the last year alone, they examined 88,000 food items, with 67 of those being edible oils. The department criticized Lin for spreading misinformation for political purposes and undermining the efforts of frontline food safety personnel.

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