Kimlan Foods
Taiwanese food products company
Kimlan Foods Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 金蘭食品股份有限公司) is a Taiwanese food products company headquartered in Daxi District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. As of 2008 it is the largest soy sauce manufacturer in Taiwan. The Chinese-language Reader's Digest ranked Kimlan as a winner of the gold awards in 2008.
01History
The company was originally founded as "Datung Company" on 8 May 1936 by Mr. Han Chung. In 1970, the company was renamed as Kimlan Soy Sauce. In 1987, it was renamed again to "Kimlan Foods Co., Ltd".
In 1985, reports indicated that several high-level employees who were members of the founding Han Chung family fell seriously ill after consuming raw giant African land snails, leading to multiple fatalities. The cause of death was later identified as infection by the parasitic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis, commonly known as the rat lungworm.
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