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Taiwan FDA bans companies selling tainted products
Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration has announced punitive measures for manufacturers or exporters who sell products tainted with Sudan dyes.
The ban is part of a series of measures announced by the agency that it would take to tighten border controls on imported food items, amid concerns over chili powder imported from China containing Sudan dye, a red-colour chemical banned in Taiwan for use in foodstuffs.
The administration says manufacturers or traders that have exported to Taiwan food products found to contain Sudan dyes, such as the contaminated chili powder or its raw ingredients, are permanently banned from exporting those items to the country.
And the FDA says businesses in Taiwan that have imported food products contaminated by Sudan dyes are also banned, for an unspecified duration, from importing the same type of items again.
If such contaminated food items are found, food products from the same country of origin with the same commodity code will then be subject to 100% shipment-by-shipment inspections.
