For many, it is now a good time to nibble at ginger duck hot pots as it is getting chilly with a cold front passing and winter monsoon strengthening.

The government is sticking to its plan of tightly examining imports of American beef products after the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) blocked yesterday the legislative meeting on revising existing regulations on food safety.

No U.S. ground beef and internal organs have entered the Taiwan market so far while importers and marketers are forced to slash price tags on other American products with no controversies in order to stem sales slide.

Police busted a factory in Jhongli City yesterday morning, for allegedly selling industrial salt as edible salt.

Officials from the Council of Agriculture (COA) and the Environmental Protection Department of Tainan County assured consumers yesterday that no rice contaminated by cadmium has been distributed onto local markets.

The Oolong tea variety sold at the National Palace Museum (NPM) has been found to contain two toxic pesticides by toxicity tests, according to the results of tests done on teas sold in the NPM that were revealed yesterday by the Taipei City health department.

A tropical plant medicine center, the first of its kind in Taiwan, is scheduled to become operational yesterday. It is intended to serve as a plant medicine research stronghold and to provide plant medicine services for individuals and organizations at home and abroad.

Crops contaminated by heavy metal in the "Last Rice Farmer's" hometown in Tainan County will be destroyed later this week, an Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) official said Monday.

Researchers have pinpointed the source of what is probably the worst mass poisoning in history, according to a study published Sunday.

The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) and other government agencies have expanded the investigation into more sites in southern Kaohsiung County that could be contaminated with toxic chemicals from steel slag dumped by steel mills.