Food Revolution Day! Farmers' bazaar introduces TUV annual inspection for the first time to ensure food safety

Share + 1 Tweet Email Water Garden Organic Farmer Bazaar cooperates with Dufresne to launch the triple security mechanism!

252 pesticide residues and heavy metal inspection are safe to be submitted for weekly inspection.

(Taipei, May 20, 2014) in response to British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's Global Food Revolution Day (Food Revolution Day) campaign, the Greater Taipei area indicator Organic Farmer Bazaar-Water Flower Garden Organic Farmer Bazaar and market supporters work together to build a strict, safe and trusted agricultural food support community, in cooperation with the European Union system T ü f V Rheinland of Germany, to support organic farmers throughout the year. Provide full-year pesticide residues and heavy metal testing in the bazaar, coupled with the existing machine verification of various farms and occasional farm visits held in the bazaar as joint public participation inspection, to form a triple inspection and protection net. to create a rigorous and safe organic farmer market!

Under the guidance of the Agriculture and Food Administration of the Committee of Agriculture of the Executive Yuan and the Taipei Water supply Department, the Housewives Union Environmental Protection Foundation, the all-China Teachers' Union General Federation and the Taipei Cultural Exploration Association assisted farmers in the Water Flower Garden Organic Farmers' Market. Except for each farm that applies for, it must be certified by an organic certification organization recognized by the Agriculture and Food Department of the Council of Agriculture of the Executive Yuan. Before coming to the market, he also visited and exchanged ideas with market members on the spot. And through the German Dufresne to assist in the monthly irregular market inspection of related products, German Dufresne and organic farmers are willing to use strict standards and friends supported by trust to establish a safe and healthy market!

Gao Yuqiang, general manager of Dufresne, Germany, pointed out, "Food safety is a key livelihood issue in recent years. Because we agree with the concept of water garden organic bazaar, we take action to support the development of non-toxic agriculture. I hope to bring a more complete and rigorous food safety experience for domestic organic lovers and high-quality farmers' bazaars."

Lin Bohu, CEO of Taipei Cultural Exploration Association, organizer of Organic Farmers' Market in Water Flower Garden, said that "health, ecology, fairness and rigor" are the four organic principles followed by the Organic Farmers' Market in Water Flower Garden. The rigor is the key to the sustainability of organic agriculture and food safety, through cooperation with the world-class professional certification agency Dufresne of Germany. We hope to play an exemplary role, not only to establish the self-requirements of every farm in the bazaar, but also to work with all bazaar support friends to establish a basic safety awareness of food safety and organic agriculture. including what kind of agricultural methods, pesticide testing, soil remediation, water protection, heavy metal background values and so on.

A series of food safety problems occurred in 2013, including the immediate sale of expired products, or the production of expired raw materials, illegal addition of industrial grade disodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate, illegal addition of industrial grade maleic anhydride to make starch, illegal addition of industrial grade pigment yellow, illegal addition of industrial grade salt as edible salt, edible oil mixed with cottonseed oil and copper chlorophyll, preservative benzoic acid The content exceeds the standard, vegetable residue plus Poly, Oaxx, Bufeisone and other pesticides, excessive content, impure brewed soy sauce contains excessive toxic monochloropropanediol, carcinogenic antibiotics chloramphenicol methanesulfonate chloramphenicol and chloramphenicol in eggs. These foods, which are closely related to the people, have become health killers, causing people to lose their trust in manufacturers, and also cause panic and mistrust of food.

The future bazaar and autonomous committee will regularly invite a supporter to sample and let the supporters select any agricultural product from any farm and send it to Dufflein, Germany for 252 pesticide residues and statutory heavy metal tests, and disclose the relevant test results.

Duff Rheinland is a professional food inspection and certification laboratory. T Ü V Rheinland Group, which belongs to a century-old European enterprise, is an independent third-party certification body. It has not only passed the ISO17025 certification of the National Certification Foundation (TAF) in Taiwan, but also obtained the dual certification of the Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) Food and Drug Administration and Cosmetics Laboratory of the Department of Health. Its rigorous testing technology and management quality are in line with international standards. To guard the food safety of the people.

About the Organic Farmers' Market in Water Garden

This is a purely organic fool's action-purely organic persistence, genuinely organic farmers, and organic aesthetics of life. this is the story of a group of farmers who have changed Taiwan with friendly natural farming. A group of organic farmers stood up on their own and re-established a unique new market for organic humanities in the tap water garden in the business district of National Taiwan University Mansion. It is held every Saturday from 11:00 to 17:00 at Taipei Water Park (near exit 4 of MRT Gongguan Station).

Press contact:

Taipei Cultural Exploration Association Lin Baihu / 0938-322,844

Huiyun Ye (Claire Yeh), Duff Rheinland, Germany / 0912-400782

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