Source: Dan Flynn, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 1/5/21


Taiwan may have made a deal with U.S. trade negotiators to end the ban on ractopamine in imported livestock on Jan. 1, but local governments are not going along. Mayors of  Taipei, New Taipei, and Taichung are looking for ways to protect consumers, such as by encouraging retailers to set aside “ractopamine-free” areas of retail meat counters. Before Jan. 1, Taiwan — like most of the world — banned the feed additive in imported meat, and the central government sets the country’s food safety policy.

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