Ahead of Lunar New Year, 89 Cheating Businesses Switching 'Chinese Products → Domestic Products' Face Crackdown

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, 89 food manufacturing and sales companies that disguised Chinese products as domestic or produced and distributed food using expired raw materials were caught and penalized.

The Gyeonggi Province Special Judicial Police Unit announced on the 22nd that from the 6th to the 15th, ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, they conducted investigations into illegal activities targeting food manufacturing and processing companies, large supermarkets, and traditional market food sellers within the province, uncovering 89 violations.

The Special Judicial Police will conduct supplementary investigations on the identified companies, then refer the cases to the prosecution and request administrative actions from the respective city and county governments.

The types of violations include 21 cases of expired product distribution, 7 cases of false origin labeling, 9 cases of unregistered business operations and violations of business area regulations, and 42 cases of violations related to transaction statements and raw material receipt and usage records.

Company A in Suwon was caught artificially extending the expiration date of dried seafood by about one month. Company B in Hwaseong was caught manufacturing and distributing processed meat products and bread without conducting self-quality inspections.

Company C in Anyang cooked and sold chicken and duck without labeling the origin, while Company D in Guri was caught storing and selling frozen livestock products as refrigerated products.

Company F, an agricultural product distribution company in Hwaseong, was caught importing 37 tons of ginkgo nuts from China, peeling them, and repackaging them as domestic products before distributing them to wholesale and retail businesses in traditional markets.

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