Ex-chief of Taiwan food giant arrested
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A TAIWAN tycoon was taken into custody yesterday after his company was implicated in a food safety scandal that resulted in a massive product recall.
Wei Ying-chung, the former chairman of Wei Chuan Foods Corp, a unit of food giant Ting Hsin International Group, was held on suspicion of fraud and food safety violations on the grounds that he could collude with other witnesses or destroy evidence, a court statement said.
Wei Chuan was accused of selling oil intended for animal food, which is banned for human use, as regular lard and cooking oil in the latest food safety scare that has gripped Taiwan and triggered public outrage against the company.
Wei last week stepped down as chairman of Wei Chuan and two other units after he was implicated in the scandal that saw more than 60 types of lard, cooking oil, margarine and related products removed from sale.
As of yesterday, about 400 tons of products adulterated with feed oil had been pulled from shelves, according to health officials in Taiwan.
The Ting Hsin group, which also owns the instant noodle brand Master Kong, said on Thursday that it will donate NT$3 billion (US$100 million) to the government or approved foundations, after consumers in Taiwan started boycotting its products.
Last month, Wei Chuan was among the hundreds of firms that removed products from sale in a damaging “gutter oil” scandal. In 2013, it recalled thousands of bottles of cooking oil adulterated with a banned coloring agent.
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