TAIWAN: Government panned over slashed food-safety budget - (Taipei Times)
January 30, 2008 – 6:16 pmAlthough public concern about food safety is increasing, the government has been slashing budgets intended for tackling such issues, academics said yesterday, citing the results of a poll conducted by Academia Sinica.
Lin I-ping, an assistant professor at National Taiwan University’s (NTU) Department of Public Health, said that 87 percent of respondents said food safety was an extremely important public health issue, followed by 75 percent who cited chemical substances and 74 percent who cited air quality as being extremely important.
The results show a slight difference from a routine survey carried out in the EU, in which 64 percent of the people questioned said chemical substances posed the largest threat to public health, followed by 59 percent who referred to food safety and 51 percent who cited air quality.
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