Taiwan: Food waste is banned from being used to raise pigs

In response to the African Swine Fever Central Disaster Response Center may announce the prohibition of using food waste to raise pigs; the Environmental Protection Agency has invited 22 counties and cities’ environmental protection bureaus to convene a response meeting on the 26th to discuss how to ensure that the public, restaurants, institutions, and food waste are cleaned during the epidemic prevention period. The food waste of transport operators, food waste pig farms and other units will not be affected, and complete food waste removal contingency measures, and a single service window will be established by the Environmental Protection Agency and the environmental protection bureaus of counties and cities. People are asked to reduce food wisely, pack leftover food without waste, and drain the food waste before discharging it to reduce the amount and reduce the burden of back-end processing. In addition, meat products of unknown origin should be thrown into garbage trucks ...