Taiwan steps up oyster checks amid concerns over labeling fraud

Published 2024년 1월 20일

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Taiwan's Fisheries Agency has launched a program to inspect the origin of all oysters due to concerns about false labeling of Vietnamese imports, which may actually be Chinese oysters. The agency took action after local oyster suppliers reported their concerns about fraudulent labeling to a legislator. The Ministry of Agriculture has applied technical evaluations to identify the oysters' places of origin and relevant agencies are working together to track the countries of origin of all oysters on sale.

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Taipei, Jan. 20 (CNA) A special program inspecting all oysters' countries of origin has been launched due to concerns over the false labeling of Vietnamese imports, Taiwan's Fisheries Agency said Saturday. In a statement, the agency said it had launched the program after local oyster suppliers reported to Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chen Ting-fei (陳亭妃) that Chinese oysters -- which are banned from Taiwan -- had been transhipped through Vietnam and relabeled. Suppliers in Tainan's Anping District also expressed concerns to Chen that such imports were being fraudulently sold as Taiwanese, according to local media reports. In a social media post on Friday, Chen, citing Customs Administration data, noted that Vietnamese oyster imports had increased significantly over the past five years, with annual shipments into Taiwan increasing from 201 tons in 2019 to 3,937 tons in 2023. Chen claimed that many of these "Vietnamese" oysters were from China, which had been ...

Source: Focustaiwan