The Tsai Ing-wen administration of the DPP has delivered yet another masterpiece while the “One Fixed Day Off, One Flexible Rest Day” controversy remains unresolved! The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stepped up today to tell everyone: “Hey, we consulted many experts and decided to relax the allowable residue limit of the pesticide Fipronil in eggs from zero-tolerance to 10ppb.” The FDA added their professional justification: “After all, poultry feed might already contain Fipronil residues.”
According to the FDA’s logic, since drinking water might contain heavy metal residues, we should relax those standards too—let’s just let all Taiwanese people drink themselves into idiocy. According to domestic media reports, because domestic eggs were repeatedly found to contain Fipronil residues last year, causing public panic, the FDA held an expert meeting with the Council of Agriculture. Considering that poultry feed imported from abroad might contain Fipronil residues, they decided to relax the residue standards for chicken, duck, and goose eggs from the previous zero-tolerance to 10ppb.
Fipronil, with the molecular formula $C_{12}H_4Cl_2F_6N_4OS$, is lethal to crustaceans and insects and is used as a pesticide. Recent studies have shown it harms animals and the environment and is a carcinogen for humans.
This is absurd. Instead of questioning feed importers on why they are importing toxic feed, the FDA decides to permit toxic eggs just because imported feed might contain residues!?
Which university produces this kind of ass-backwards intelligence?
From the fact that the government would rather compromise the health of all citizens than compromise the profits of feed importers, it shouldn’t be hard for everyone to see why the Tsai Ing-wen government repeatedly protects the interests of capital in the Labor Standards Act disputes, remaining unmoved even when criticized as the “Pro-Capitalist Party” (Zijindang).
The FDA also stated that the draft will undergo a 60-day public comment period to gather opinions. If there are no objections, the new regulation will be announced and implemented as early as April.
Official’s inner monologue: “I won’t hear any ‘opinions’ anyway. Let’s open the gates quickly so this doesn’t interfere with the year-end elections.”