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Nan City Government strengthens the prevention and control of Sudan red in the hotel industry to ensure food safety of tourists 2024/03/11
The Tourism and Tourism Bureau joins hands with the Health Bureau to inspect food safety in the tourism and accommodation industry

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In order to comprehensively prevent substandard chili powder (containing Sudanese pigments), the city government has set up a task force, and Tainan Mayor Huang Weizhe has specially instructed all bureaus to strengthen publicity and inspections. In order to protect the rights and interests of tourists, the Municipal Tourism and Tourism Bureau, in conjunction with the Health Bureau, has strengthened inspections of food in the hotel industry, and called on hoteliers to remove substandard products or raw materials from their shelves to jointly maintain food safety.

Mayor Huang Weizhe pointed out that the recent Taiwan Lantern Festival and related lantern festival activities have driven a large number of tourists into Tainan. Food safety of tourists is the issue of greatest concern to the city government. Not only did it immediately set up an inter-bureau task force, it also ordered the Tourism and Tourism Bureau to work with relevant agencies to conduct Priority will be given to inspections of hotels and lodging businesses that provide catering services to prevent the flow of substandard chili powder into Tainan. The city government has recently sent personnel to inspect the hotel industry with large restaurants in Anping District and Central and Western Districts. The Tourism and Tourism Bureau and the Health Bureau have checked the raw materials in storage, finished products and semi-finished products on site in the kitchen one by one. None of the operators has purchased relevant substandard products or raw materials. On-site No substandard products were found. Mayor Huang Weizhe called on all hotel and hotel operators to implement food safety and hygiene management, purchase more ingredients with production and sales records and traceability mechanisms, and asked the operators to reconfirm whether they are using relevant substandard products or raw materials, especially small packages of welcome tea biscuits. Packaging labeling and expiry date. If you use or purchase substandard products or raw materials, they must be sealed immediately and must not be used or discarded at will. Please report to the Municipal Health Bureau immediately.

Director Lin Guohua of the Tourism Bureau further explained that in cooperation with the city government’s investigation team, the Tourism Bureau has immediately notified hoteliers and provided them with a list of substandard products and raw materials to facilitate operators to immediately confirm whether they have used substandard chili powder-related products or not. raw materials, and set up an information page on the administrative service website of the Tourism Bureau to compile the latest information. At the same time, together with the Health Bureau, we proactively launched a joint inspection of the tourism and accommodation industry to ensure the food safety of tourists in multiple ways. Director Lin Guohua reminded that in accordance with the provisions of Article 10, Paragraph 1 of the Consumer Protection Law, business operators should immediately recall the batch of goods or stop them when there are facts sufficient to believe that the goods or services they provide are likely to endanger the safety and health of consumers. its services. In addition, in accordance with Article 7, Paragraph 5 of the Food Safety and Hygiene Management Act, when food businesses discover that products are likely to endanger health and safety, they should immediately stop manufacturing, processing, sales and recall, and notify the local competent authority. If found guilty of violating the law, they will be transferred to the city government health bureau for disciplinary action, with a maximum fine of NT$3 million and order to close down business; hoteliers are requested to actively cooperate.

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