Confronted with the farmland pollution report, the Council on Agriculture (COA) hurried to explain that the surveys used wide area samples, and it did not mean that so much farmland had really suffered serious adulteration. It would be necessary in the future to do further studies of small sample areas.
針對農地汙染調查，農委會急著解釋，過去的調查是大面積取樣，並不表示這些農地都真的遭到嚴重汙染，未來必需進一步小面積採樣，才能劃出真正的汙染區。