Plasticizer incident and its health effects in Taiwan

The May 23, 2011, plasticizer incident was one of the most serious food safety issues that ever occurred in Taiwan. Most, if not all, plasticizer-contaminated food items were due to malicious replacement of palm oil with phthalate plasticizer(s) in the cloudy-agent formulas by two upstream manufactu...

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Main Authors: Jih-Heng Li, Ying-Chin Ko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-07-01
Series:Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1607551X12001520