U.S. says it is monitoring Taiwan beef import rules

Government officials, including Premier Wu Den-yi and Minister Yaung Chih-liang of Department of Health (DOH) claimed that these series of measures and initiatives taken by local-level governments will ultimately deter importers from bringing in beef products most worrying to consumers.

Public sentiment against ground beef and cattle viscera imports continues to simmer around Taiwan.

More beef importers, retailing outlets, and restaurants have voluntarily signed up to join a self-management mechanism initiated by the Taipei City Government to exclude ground beef and internal organs from their offerings on grounds that it will be hard for these products to find buyers anyway.

Representatives from fastfood chains like KFC, Burger King, and Mos Burger as well as wholesale stores like Carrefour joined a campaign of “no buying, no selling, no eating” and “clear labeling” of the products launched by the Taipei County Government.

Other local administrators plan to follow suit to protect constituents in their regions.

Representatives from the Consumers Foundation, Kaohsiung City Council, and civic groups staged a protest against what they described as the forced import of ground beef and internal organs at the Kaohsiung office of the Washington-based American Institute in Taiwan (AIT).

Various organizations continued soliciting sponsors for holding a nationwide referendum to force the government to reopen negotiations on beef trade with the U.S., although officials have ruled out the possibility.

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