Daejeon City Cracks Down on Health Food Restaurants Violating Origin Labeling for Goat Meat and Others

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Daejeon Special Judicial Police announced on the 4th that they have recently conducted a special crackdown on summer health food restaurants over the past two months and caught four establishments violating the Origin Labeling Act.

The special judicial police conducted the crackdown based on the judgment that, with the increase in consumption of health foods during the summer season and the domestic goat meat price more than doubling, some establishments might be deceiving customers by falsifying the origin of their products.

As a result, three establishments were caught for falsely labeling the origin, and one establishment was caught for not labeling the origin, all violating the Origin Labeling Act.

Among the caught establishments, restaurants A and B were caught selling Australian goat meat, which is relatively cheaper, as domestic goat meat.

In particular, restaurant B was found to have falsely labeled the origin as if the goat meat was raised on a domestic goat farm, despite using Australian goat meat.

Additionally, restaurant C used Vietnamese octopus and Austrian pork but falsely labeled the origin as Chinese octopus and Spanish or German pork, while restaurant D was caught for intentionally not labeling the origin while using Australian goat meat.

False (fraudulent) labeling of agricultural product origins is punishable under the Act on the Labeling of Origin of Agricultural Products by imprisonment of up to seven years or a fine of up to 100 million KRW. Failure to label the origin or to keep and store origin certificates (receipts, transaction statements) may result in a fine of up to 10 million KRW.

Im Jae-ho, head of the Civil Judicial Police Division of the city, said, “We will do our best to establish a fair and transparent trading order and ensure the supply of safe food through continuous crackdowns on the labeling of agricultural product origins.”

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