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Article: OVER 200 TAIPEI STORES SIGN UP TO BOYCOTT U.S. BEEF OFFAL.
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- AsiaPulse News
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- October 28, 2009
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TAIPEI, Oct. 28 Asia Pulse - Over 200 stores and restaurants in Taipei City have signed up for an alliance to reject sales of U.S. beef offal, ground beef and spinal cords or their use as ingredients, over health concerns, a city government official said Tuesday.
Just a day after the Taipei City Office of Commerce initiated a plan to encourage the city's 15,000 restaurants, supermarket chains, hotels and department stores to form an alliance whose members will boycott the sale or use of U.S. beef offal, ground beef and spinal cords, more than 200 stores had already signed up, said Liu Chia-chun, director of the office.
Liu said his office will accept ...