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Will Taiwan’s food safety scandal wreck the DPP’s local election hopes?
Taiwan’s largest food safety scandal in years, involving carcinogenic levels of benzo[a]pyrene in soybean salad oil from Central Union Oil Corporation, has become a political liability for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as opposition parties gain leverage ahead of November’s local elections.
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