There are doubts in the Taiwan market about "selling pork on sheep's head" or reprocessing for the……

Original title: "Selling Pork on Sheep Head" in the Taiwan Market: Inward Doubts or Reprocessing for "Lost Lai Pig"

On August 25th, according to Taiwan's "Zhongshi News Network", a vendor in New Taipei City recently reprocessed pork and sold it at high prices. The New Taipei prosecutor, along with the police and health bureau officials, jointly searched and arrested three people on the 24th. One of them was subsequently detained and banned. The Taiwan Consumer Association questioned whether these reprocessed pork products were American "Lai pigs" (including lean pork concentrate pork), claiming that the phenomenon of the flow of American pigs becoming a mystery has "found partial answers".

The Xinbei Local People's Procuratorate pointed out that the vendor "Chongning Haichan" in the fruit and vegetable market of Taipei was suspected of selling fake mutton, which was immediately investigated and dealt with, and directed Xinbei City and other units to search five locations together with the health bureaus of Xinbei City, Hualien County, and Taoyuan City, and then search the upstream companies of Xinbei Sanzhong, and seize mobile phones, computers, account books, purchase and shipment orders, customer data sheets and other information, Detain three brothers and sisters surnamed Yang and three butchers surnamed Chen, and notify three witnesses to attend the case.

Inspectors from the New Taipei City Health Bureau went to vendors and upstream suppliers to carry out inspections. Image source: New Taipei City Health Bureau

The prosecution stated that the Yang siblings jointly operated the "Chongning Seafood" to sell meat and seafood, while the Chen defendant was a shareholder of Nantai International Enterprise Society and sold meat to the Yang siblings. From 2020, the defendant surnamed Chen will sell mutton mixed with pork or pork chips without mutton to the brother and sister surnamed Yang according to the requirements and orders of the brother and sister surnamed Yang, and the two will sell mutton to unknown consumers.

The prosecution stated that the three individuals are highly suspected of committing a crime, and Yang Nu is in danger of being linked as an accomplice or witness, or annihilating the witness. She has applied to the court for detention and detention to prevent her from seeing anyone; Yang Nan and the shareholder surnamed Chen have no need for detention and are ordered to surrender their bonds at NT $200000 and NT $100000.

Question on the Island: Finding Partial Answers to the Mystery of the "Lai Pig" Flow in the United States

The Taiwan authorities opened up imports of pork from the United States containing ractopamine (also known as clenbuterol) in 2021. Since then, its flow has been a focus of the public on the island, and the annual import of "Lai pig" has reached thousands of tons. In May this year, the Taiwan Consumer Association sampled 289 pork containing food products from the market channel, and no "Lai pig" has been found to exist. The "selling pork on sheep's head" incident may have provided some answers to the mystery of the flow of beautiful pigs.

The Taiwan Consumers' Association conducted a market spot check in late May this year and found no US produced pork products, questioning whether US pigs have been "washed from their production areas". Image source: Taiwan's "Zhongshi News Network" source image

According to previous reports, public opinion on the island has questioned the whereabouts of the American pigs, fearing they may be "washed out of their production areas". Not long after the opening of "Lai Pig", it was exposed that the pork used in the Taiwanese military's kitchens had an "outer box" indicating its origin in Taiwan, while the "inner box" was labeled as the United States.

The Taiwan Consumer Foundation said that the flow of American "Laizhu" has become a mystery, which strongly questioned the extent and effectiveness of various measures that the Taiwan authorities promised to "guard consumers from customs to kitchen, implement control measures such as source management, import inspection, clear marking, tracing and market inspection, and require strict marking of pork sources" when announcing their consent to the import of American "Laizhu".

The Taiwan Consumers' Association strongly calls on the competent authorities of Taiwan to disclose the specific implementation measures and results of the above commitments since the importation of American "Lai Pig" into Taiwan, especially the flow of imported American pigs, identification of pork sources, testing of Lai Ke dopamine content and other important information, and to disclose relevant flow information, strengthen the maintenance of consumer food safety, and allow the public to have free consumption choices with sufficient consumption information.

Kuomintang Taipei City Councilor Wang Xinyi wrote that no one knows exactly where these beautiful pigs are going. When the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities wanted to open up imports of American pigs, they promised to manage them from the source and control them for consumers, but now it seems like a joke. If it is really "selling pork on sheep's head", please ask the Democratic Progressive Party authorities to quickly investigate, "If this continues, the people dare not even eat meat".

In response to this matter, netizens on the island left comments criticizing the DPP authorities for being unscrupulous and "having too many hidden truths"; For the mystery of the flow of beautiful pigs, netizens commented that "they disappeared into the stomachs of the common people", "they didn't disappear, they just turned into Taiwanese pigs", "I really dare not eat meat anymore, the disappearing beautiful pigs are so outrageous".