Customs, health officials suspected of shielding smugglers of tainted food: agency
The Agency Against Corruption yesterday revealed that Yang Jun-yuan an official of the Taipei Customs of Customs Administration and Chang En-shuo, an official of the Taoyuan City Department of Public Health have allegedly been covering up for merchants smuggling tainted food products from Japan and Thailand into Taiwan.
The AAC was tipped off yesterday that illegal food products have been released onto the market with support from government officials. The AAC then discovered that three companies have imported more than 6,000 kilograms of unlicensed agricultural products into the nation, with a total market value of NT$10 million. They said that most products may have already been consumed.
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