The Kaohsiung Department of Health yesterday said it has fined two egg companies NT$4 million (US$124,425) each for failing to provide data to help trace the distribution flow of imported eggs amid concern that some tainted products might have made their way into markets.
Data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture showed that from March to this month, Tai Nong Egg Products (台農蛋品) and Sin Sing Eggs Co (信興蛋品) had purchased 8.289 million eggs — which were imported from Australia, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, Turkey and the US — from the National Animal Industry Foundation, the department said in a statement.
The 8.289 million imported eggs included 5.028 million shell eggs and 3.261 million eggs for further processing, it said.
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The department said it had held several talks with the two firms, but Sin Sing Eggs only said that all the eggs it purchased from the foundation were sold as washed shell eggs, while there was only one document showing that Tai Nong had provided 2.38 million eggs to a large distributor.
The two companies were unable to provide documents detailing total purchases, sales, inventory and disposal, it said.
As they are unable to fully explain where the eggs they had purchased had gone, the department has filed a criminal complaint against the two for false labeling and fraud, Kaohsiung Department of Health Deputy Director-General Wang Hsiao-hsing (王小星) said.
Even the data about the 2.38 million eggs delivered to a large distributor was not provided by Tai Nong, but by the distributor, he said.
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