DEHP: Taiwan's Version of the Chinese Milk Scandal?

[tommy525]

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/nati ... racing.htm

oh boy !!! how long have we been drinking this stuff? Lets hope not much of it found itself into food.

[bismarck]

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2011/05/25/303658/DOH-tracing.htm

oh boy !!! how long have we been drinking this stuff? Lets hope not much of it found itself into food.

Hmmmm... Where do you live again?

This is why I only drink tea, coffee and beer.

[tommy525]

well WE (meaning me) was there in the summer of 2009 my friend and I may well have ingested some of this chemical shitzle . I sure hope not.

And I am concerned for you guys/gals wellbeing ya know?

[Hamletintaiwan]

If you are a guy, just wear your girlfriend's bra and you'll be just fine.

[bismarck]

If you are a guy, just wear your girlfriend's bra and you'll be just fine.

Yeah, but you can't drink from your girlfriend...

[Marty]

Is there a list of the affected products?

[Icon]

It's a bit difficult to pinpoint all the products, you see, the problem is at wholesale level:

Prosecutors said clouding agent formulated with palm oil may be used as a food additive. However, as the cost of palm oil is high, Lai is alleged to have been adding industrial plasticizer to his clouding agent, which he supplied to at least 45 soft drink and dairy manufacturers around Taiwan.

Lai, 57, the owner of the largest clouding agent supplier in the nation, has a high-capacity manufacturing plant in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China, and supplies Chinese and Vietnamese manufacturers as well as local companies.

Taipei Times

Here a partial list from Taiwan's FDA:
http://www.fda.gov.tw/files/news/附件3%20%20%20%20食品中檢出塑化劑DEHP清單修改.pdf

Here a longer explanation: http://www.fda.gov.tw/files/news/0524.1630昱伸下游廠商.pdf

In summary, they put this in drinks, jellies, jams, cake fillings, etc. So, as whole sellers, they gave this to coffee shops, drink stands, breakfast places, etc. meaning that morning toast, that guava drink, the passion fruit green tea, the snacks, etc. are all laced with this plastic.

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Mods, help, can't make links work

[tommy525]

The guy should be executed like they did with the perps in China. Messing with peoples lives like that.

[Charlie Jack]

Edit:
Mods, help, can't make links work

Maybe these will work:

http://www.fda.gov.tw/files/news/%E9%99 ... %94%B9.pdf

http://www.fda.gov.tw/files/news/0524.1 ... %95%86.pdf

I guess the board doesn't embed Internet addresses that contain Chinese characters.

The "Inspect element" function of Google Chrome (made available by right-clicking the page) gave Internet addresses that didn't have Chinese characters.

Edit: It may be that this particular adulteration is something new:

Yang, who works for the Food and Drug Administration under the DOH, spent two weeks identifying the signals as being caused by DEHP, which had never previously been used, to her knowledge, as a food additive.

"No medical or food-processing archives from Taiwan or abroad have indicated that DEHP has been added to food or drink products, " Lo quoted Yang as saying.

--Central News Agency, "Taiwan: Mother of two becomes heroine behind DEHP-tainted drinks probe," Taiwan News Web site, today

[yuli]

I guess the board doesn't embed Internet addresses that contain Chinese characters.

Some additional information (OT): as far as IT related software and hardware is concerned there can't be anything except alphanumeric characters (letters, figures) and a few permitted punctuation marks in a URL or e-mail address, so internally all those URLs and e-mail addresses in domain names with kanji use forms humans can't read, and certain browsers then translate those into human readable form when the display them. BBS and e-mail software by and large doesn't seem to be able to do that (yet).