1. Introduction In 2013, the food safety problem in Taiwan raised the concerns of the whole society, and this serious problem also attracted a high degree of media attention in several countries. The industries involved in this scandal included cooking oils, alcoholic beverages, and other consumer staples. Among these categories, the food scandal that occurred in the cooking oil industry was the most serious as many famous oil manufacturers were involved in this incident. All these food safety scandals had made consumers lose trust in the government and worry about their health. At the beginning of this incident, a famous food factory called Chang-Chi Foodstuff Co. was accused of using inferior materials and artificial additives in production. manufacturing process and did not clearly label its contents in the ingredient indicators. In late 2013, the company's president, Chen-Li Kao, was sentenced to prison and Chang-Chi Foodstuff Co. was fined approximately NT$80 million in accordance with Taiwan's health authorities. Another large food manufacturing company, Ting-Hsin International Group, was also implicated in the scandal. The company was fined a large sum of money for disguising mislabeled products and using adulterated cooking oil purchased from Chang-Chi Foodstuff Co. Furthermore, in addition to the cooking oil industry, some other manufacturers of food and beverage companies, such as alcoholic beverage producers, were also fined because the poverty indicators listed on their products were found to be incorrect, which was perceived as fraud and caused that more consumers lost trust in food safety regulations in Taiwan (Bo, 2013). After the scandal, Taiwan's president, Ying-Jeou Ma, hordes...... mid-document ......ad/20131125_1.pdf [Accessed April 23, 2014]Taiwan's Control Yuan (2011) A Research report on the current situation of Taiwan's Food Security and Health. Available at: humanrights.cy.gov.tw/dl.asp?fileName=2120949771.pdf‎ [Accessed 23 April 2014]Unnevehr, L. (2006) Food security as a global public good: is there underinvestment? Available at: http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/25733/1/pl06un01.pdf [Accessed: 20 April 2014]Wang, H.W. (2013) A research on the enforcement of food safety regulations in Taiwan . Available at: http://www.cppl.ntu.edu.tw/102plan/102cppl-5.pdf [Accessed: 25 April 2014]Wu, RJ (2010) 'An urgent question: how to strengthen the control of food safety" in Taiwan", Taiwan Watch, 12(1), pp. 2013 Taiwan Food Scandal" (2013) Wikipedia Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Taiwan_food_scandal Access: April 20th 2014]