FOODS that contain recycled cooking oil from Taiwan have not been found on the Shenzhen market, officials with the city’s food and drug administration said Wednesday.

    Taiwan police busted two underground factories on suspicion of selling processed waste oils — collected from cookers, fryers and grease traps — including one that supplied leading food oil manufacturer Chang Guann Co.

    More than 1,200 companies have been identified as having used recycled waste oil, including Wei Chuan, Chi Mei, Starbucks, Cafe de Coral and popular chain store 85ºC.

    An employee with a Shenzhen branch of Hong Kong-based Cafe de Coral said his restaurant didn’t receive any notice about the food scandal, and its business has been as good as usual, according to a news report.

    Maxim’s, a Hong Kong-based food giant, issued a statement Monday, saying that two brands of its moon cakes — Maxim’s and Arome — don’t contain lard and that it stopped selling and started recalling its pineapple buns that could contain tainted oil. But a Maxim’s bakery store in Nanshan District is still selling pineapple buns. The labels show that the buns were made Tuesday at a factory in Songgang Subdistrict, Bao’an District. An employee with the store said that his store hasn’t received a notice to stop selling pineapple buns and that he doesn’t know where the raw materials for the buns come from.

    The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine warned that foods with problematic oils might have entered the mainland market through online suppliers.

    Products of many food brands involved in the oil scandal are sold on Taobao, China’s most popular online shopping mall.

    The city’s food and drug administrators said they hadn’t found foods that contain recycled cooking oil from Taiwan as of Tuesday evening, but the inspection is still in progress and any products found containing such oil will be taken off the shelf immediately, officials said. (Zhang Yang)