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  • What happened to plasticizers in Taiwan?
  • The May 23, 2011, plasticizer incident was one of the most serious food safety issues that ever occurred in Taiwan. Most, if not all, plasticizer-contaminated food items were due to malicious replacement of palm oil with phthalate plasticizer (s) in the cloudy-agent formulas by two upstream manufacturers.
  • Does Taiwan have a plastic ban?
  • The country enacted measures to recycle plastic containers, reduce plastic shopping bags and restrict the use of plastic cutlery. Taiwan was one of the first countries to place an initial ban on free plastic bags when it announced the measure in 2002.
  • Are plasticizers rescheduled in Taiwan?
  • To reinforce source control of plasticizers, the Taiwan Environmental Protection Agency (TEPA) rescheduled some items of plasticizers from Class 4 to Class 1 (non-biodegradable or bioaccumulative) and Class 2 (carcinogenic, teratogenic or mutagenic) poisons on July 20, 2011.
  • How much did the plasticizer incident cost the food industry in Taiwan?
  • In the 2011 plasticizer incident, many food companies/stores were severely affected. It has been estimated that approximately $350 million (10 billion NT dollars) were at the expenses of food industry in Taiwan . The confidence of general public on the food safety remains to be restored.
  • Did Taiwan already have a high body burden of plasticizers?
  • Because the study was initiated in 2004, the results also imply that the general population in Taiwan may have already had high body burden of plasticizers long before the 2011 plasticizer incident.
  • Why did the tfdA remove plasticizer contaminated food items from the market?
  • On August 8, 2011, the TFDA announced that all the plasticizer-contaminated food items had been cleared from the market . In order to prevent contamination of plasticizer from reoccurring, the TFDA vowed to protect the general public with more inspection and constant risk assessment on food safety.

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