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he Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) has asserted that an Indomie instant noodle variant that has been pulled from shelves in Taiwan and Malaysia for containing carcinogens, is in fact safe for consumption.
The BPOM said on Thursday that while the Indomie chicken special variant did contain ethylene oxide, the carcinogen was present at levels that were acceptable by the agency’s standards.
The BPOM said food products manufactured in Indonesia were permitted to contain up to 85 parts per million (ppm) of ethylene oxide.
"The level detected in the instant noodle sample in Taiwan (0.34 ppm) is still way below the standard applied in Indonesia and in other countries like the United States and Canada," the agency said.
The BPOM added that it understood why authorities in Taiwan had banned the sale of Indomie chicken special, as ethylene oxide was prohibited in food products there.
"In Indonesia, the instant noodle is safe for consumption as it has complied with the standard applied here," the agency contended.
Earlier this week, the Taipei Health Department detected the carcinogen in at least one Indomie instant noodle variant from Indonesia, following a random inspection of various brands of instant noodles available in the city.
