China Fines Starbucks 250 Million Won for Using Expired Ingredients
[Asia Economy Reporter Ki-min Lee] Starbucks was fined approximately 250 million KRW by authorities after being caught using expired ingredients in China.
According to China Economic Network on the 10th, the Wuxi Market Supervision Administration in Jiangsu Province imposed a fine of 1.36 million yuan (about 255 million KRW) on Starbucks for using expired products.
Two Starbucks stores in Wuxi were caught by a Chinese journalist who went undercover last December while relabeling packaging of expired ingredients or selling cakes made with expired ingredients.
The journalist secretly filmed the situation and reported it. In the video, a Starbucks employee was seen wiping the coffee machine with a cloth that had been used to clean the trash bin.
After the report was released, Starbucks announced that it had closed the problematic stores, and Chinese health authorities conducted hygiene inspections of Starbucks stores in Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, and other cities.
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Starbucks is known to have opened its first store in Beijing in January 1999 and currently operates about 5,400 stores in over 200 cities.
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