Due to the rapid commercial development and the variety of the food type, eating-out in the restaurants is getting popular in Taiwan. The booming of the new restaurants located in the densely populated areas all around the cities in Taiwan. Pollutions come from restaurant operation process which include noise pollution from the air-condition, air pollution from cooking fume, and water pollution from kitchen. The problems become much intense and prominent in the urbanized region where restaurants are sited remarkably close to dwellings. All these pollution will lead the nuisances of the neighborhoods. Residents nearest to the restaurants are prone to nuisances attributed from cooking fume emissions. Complaints of the cooking fume and cooking odors are dramatically increase in these years, and according to the EPA statistic an approximately 50 % of oily cooking fume and odor in whole air pollution complaints. It is consider necessary to take appropriate actions to control the emissions to a level that it would not cause nuisance from an environmental perspective. Thus promulgating a new regulation about restaurant is an urgent work. The newly regulation about “Air Pollution Control Facility Management of the Restaurant Cooking Fume” is proposed by this project. In the new regulation, restaurants with deep frying, charbroiling, roasting, stir-frying or other similar operations and with more than 6 cooking stoves should install air pollution control system in the kitchen, there is a variety of cooking fume control equipment available in the marketplace to reduce cooking fume emission, such as hydro vents, air washers, packed tower scrubbers, electrostatic precepetators, etc. The new regulation also request the owner of the restaurants to regularly clean and maintenance the relative air pollution control equipment. The exhaust ducts serving the cooking stoves should be properly setting away from the ventilation entrance of neighborhood buildings, and connection of the exhaust ducts with sewers is also prohibited. The new proposed restaurant cooking fume regulation will be promulgated recently after the process of public hearing and official public announcement. The restaurants that be regulated should meet the regulation by installing new equipment. The EPA hopes, with the continual efforts, certain success will achieved by the decline in complaints figures and provide a better environment of the neighborhood.

Restaurant, cooking fume, cooking Odor