Changwon City Launches Crackdown on Illegal Distribution of Seafood Ahead of Lunar New Year Holiday

Inspection of seafood distribution, processing, sales businesses, and restaurants in the district starting February 1

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Saeyan] Changwon City, Gyeongsangnam-do, will conduct guidance and crackdowns to block illegal distribution such as failure to indicate the origin and false labeling of seafood for ancestral rites and gifts.

From the 25th to the 31st, the city will distribute origin labeling boards and promotional materials by district offices to announce the pre-crackdown.

Starting February 1st, a crackdown team of about 20 members from the National Fisheries Products Quality Management Service, Gyeongsangnam-do, and Changwon City will be formed to conduct full-scale guidance and crackdowns on violations of seafood origin labeling.

The inspection targets are seafood distribution, processing, and sales businesses and restaurants within the jurisdiction that consumers frequently use.

Through guidance and crackdowns, the city plans to focus on items for ancestral rites and Japanese seafood, which have a significant price difference from foreign products and are suspected of false labeling.

In particular, the city plans to actively involve the Fisheries Cooperative and merchants' associations to induce voluntary establishment of seafood origin labeling.

False labeling of seafood origin is punishable by imprisonment of up to 7 years or a fine of up to 100 million KRW, and failure to indicate the origin is subject to a fine of between 50,000 KRW and 10 million KRW.

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