Gyeongbuk Yeongju City, Lunar New Year Food Hygiene Inspection ... "Ensuring Safe Food"

Inspection of 200 Local Manufacturing and Sales Businesses, Collection and Testing of Tteok and Jeon Cooked Foods

Yeongju city officials are conducting a guidance inspection of Lunar New Year seasonal products.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Gwiyeol] Yeongju City, Gyeongbuk announced on the 11th that it will intensively inspect the hygiene management status for the safe distribution and consumption of Seol holiday seasonal foods until the 28th of this month.

The city formed an inspection team of 12 members in 6 groups to inspect 200 manufacturing and sales businesses of ritual foods, and started on-site inspections from the 10th.

Yeongju City will check whether processed foods, health functional foods, and holiday food distribution and sales businesses, which are frequently consumed as Seol holiday ritual gifts, have expired distribution periods or used ingredients that cannot be used in foods. They will verify the appropriateness of preservation and distribution standards for raw materials and finished products, and check compliance with hygiene management requirements by business type, such as raw material storage rooms, washing rooms, and manufacturing/processing rooms.

In addition, they will collect ritual foods that are highly consumed during the Seol holiday, such as rice cakes, jeon (Korean pancakes), fried foods, and Sikhye (sweet rice drink), and request inspections from the Gyeongbuk Institute of Health and Environment Research, planning to dispose of any non-compliant products.

A city official said, “Food hygiene businesses should thoroughly maintain basic hygiene through regular self-inspections,” and added, “We will conduct thorough hygiene inspections to secure safe food in celebration of the nation’s major holiday, Seol.”

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