Health minister denies setting allowable level for ractopamine

Health Minister Chiu Wen-ta denied Monday a media report that the Department of Health (DOH) has arbitrarily set 1 billion per part as the maximum permissible level of ractopamine, a livestock feed additive, in beef imports.

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