One Dollar's Reader Digest for food and nutrition: Taiwan Food Regulations: Regulations Governing the Product Names and Labeling of Prepackaged Butter, Cream, Margarine and Fat Spreads

Taiwan Food Regulations are from the regulation database

Title: 
Regulations Governing the Product Names and Labeling of Prepackaged Butter, Cream, Margarine and Fat Spreads


Title in traditional Chinese and its link
法規命令 訂定「市售奶油、乳脂、人造奶油與脂肪抹醬之品名及標示規定」，並自中華民國一百零六年七月一日生效 


Article 1

The Regulations are prescribed in accordance with the provision of Subparagraphs 10 of Paragraph 1 of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation Article 22.


Article 2

The product names and labeling of prepackaged butter and cream shall meet the following definition.

1.   Butter：A product in the form of an emulsion of the type water-in-oil containing edible butter made from fat-containing products of dairy derivatives through pasteurization, agitation, and refinement with at least 80% of milk fat.

2.   Cream：A product containing fat physically separated from the milk and processed into a product in the form of an emulsion of the type oil-in-water, staying in fluidity or non-fluidity liquid state if kept above the freezing temperature, and having milk fat content at least 10%, but less than 80%.


Article 3

Margarine and fat spreads are those fat-containing products in a plastic and liquid state, made from a blend of edible fats, oils, water and legal food additives, modified by the process of emulsification, chilling and kneading, or with the absence of chilling and kneading. The product names and labeling of prepackaged margarine and fat spreads shall meet the following definition.

If fat content of product is at least 80%, the name of it shall be “margarine”.
If fat content of product is at least 10% but less than 80%, the name of it shall be “fat spreads”.
The words that are recognized as vegetable butter shall not appear on the packages.

Taking off!

The first day of 2016, we watched airplanes taking off!

And we hoped to take off our new life!

Yes! Air pollution today!

The air is so bad today!  I checked the AQI (air quality index) from the Taiwan Air Quality Monitoring Network, Environmental Protection Administration, Taiwan.

It has been criticized that AQI does not responsible for the "real" air quality. For example, the PM10 is reaching the very high-purple level when the concentration is over 101 micro-gram/m^3 according the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, UK,

Yesterday, the AQI of Tauyuan was yellow, but the PM10 was about 90 - 95, was the brown level in the UK. However, the AQI in Taiwan cannot reveal such index.  

I have no power to improve the air pollution. What I can do is wearing a mask, and tell friends the air is very dirty now!

Teach my child: How to use a clamp meter to measure AC current of electric heater

I have used electric multi-meter for many year (perhaps since I was a junior high school student)

This is the first time I buy and use a clamp meter.

Figure 1  Got the batteries installed

Figure 2  A electric heater (1200 W) was connected to a self-made extension cord (I made it two years ago). The cord was consisted with two strains of wires (the hot and ground wires), and I separated them. Clamped one strain of the cord and measured the AC current.

Figure 3  Yes! the cute palms with red sleeves were my boy's hands!

After measuring, I confirmed that the heater was not always running with the maximum output (every night, we could hear "click" sounds from the heater ever 10 -20 seconds, and my wife thought that really noisy in the night).

From the clamp meter, I also the current changed from  8.5 - 9.0 A to 0.2 A about every 10 sec.  This is the noise come from.

I just guess that the switching sound is using a thermo-switch to prevent the device overheating.

In addition, I think the life skills are more important than any grades of subjects in the school. Thus I taught my child how to measure AC current, even he did not know what was he doing!


References
Fluke AC/DC clamp meter manual (in PDF)
Electrical wiring in North America - Wikipedia

Download our poster:Developing rapid quantification of polysaccharides by colorimetry--Published in the Annual Meeting of Food Science and Technology, 2015, Taiwan.

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Developing rapid quantification of polysaccharides by colorimetry

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Cold Storage Chart of Foods

I got this table from Facebook--FoodSafety.gov. (link)

It is great! The table clearly shows the storage time of various food under refrigeration or freezing.  I have never seen such a table in our language. Sure I am going to translate it.

Here is the original page: Storage Times for the Refrigerator and Freezer