Taiwan charges 15 people, four firms over contaminated cooking oil
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August 18, 2026
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Prosecutors in Taiwan filed charges against 15 people and four companies on Tuesday over a cancer-causing substance found in cooking oil that prompted a recall and sparked political uproar.
More than 2,800 tonnes of oil have been pulled off shelves since Taiwan’s food regulator announced in early July that a batch produced by Central Union Oil Corp contained excessive levels of a hydrocarbon called benzo(a)pyrene.
Prosecutors in the central city of Taichung, where Central Union is based, accuse the company of stalling in reporting the contamination to authorities, and argue it had failed to issue a prompt recall as required by food safety laws.
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