With such a serious outbreak of livestock disease, the COA has naturally become a target of criticism. FMD broke out long ago in the PRC and Southeast Asia, but Taiwan took no preventive measures. Not only did people routinely travel to infected areas and farms, illegal migrants from mainland China have been hired to work pig farms. Much pork has also been smuggled into Taiwan from the PRC.
發生這麼嚴重的家畜病變，農委會成為眾矢之的，因為台灣附近的中國大陸、東南亞早就是口蹄疫區，但我主管機構卻並未採取防疫措施，不但經常有人到國外疫區參觀養豬場、大陸偷渡客來台養豬場打工，更有許多從大陸走私來台的豬肉流入市面。