FDA identifies flaws in test report on milk products
2013/11/23 23:39:55
Taipei, Nov. 23 (CNA) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday pointed out several deficiencies in the test report on unsafe milk products handed over by a magazine, which led to public scare.
FDA Deputy Director-General Chiang Yu-mei said the information in the report sent by the magazine, Business Weekly, only provided simple testing procedure without giving its testing method.
The report also only named Chen Liang-yu, an associate professor of Ming Chuan University , as the one who conducted the test, without giving the name and address of the testing laboratory.
"An expert meeting will be held Sunday to study the report," Chiang said, adding that a news conference will be held shortly after the expert meeting.
FDA Director-General Yeh Ming-kung noted that Business Weekly has complied with the FDA request to hand over the test report.
But Yeh also reminded it that when publishing report on food safety, they should also publish simultaneously testing method , the laboratory conducting the test as well as the basis on reaching their conclusions.
Liu Pei-hsiu, deputy editor-in-chief of the Business Weekly, and Chen went to the FDA to hand over the test report in the afternoon.
At issue was a report by Business Weekly published earlier this week that alleged veterinary drugs, including antibiotics such as pyrimido azepine, as well as estrogen, tranquilizers or antidepressants, were found in 60 percent of the milk products tested by Chen.
Amid the public scare, the Council of Agriculture conducted tests of its own and found that eight out of nine milk products that were named in the report showed no antibiotics or pain relieving agents and conformed to national standards.
Results are still pending on the other product.
(By Sabine Cheng and Lilian Wu)
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