Daejeon Special Judicial Police Crack Down on Livestock Product Sellers for Selling Expired Items and More

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Daejeon City Special Judicial Police announced on the 7th that they recently uncovered four companies violating the Livestock Products Sanitary Control Act and the Act on Labeling and Advertising of Foods through a planned investigation.

The planned investigation was conducted targeting meat sales businesses in medium to large supermarkets handling livestock products, timed to coincide with the period of increased meat consumption.

The companies caught in the crackdown are suspected of failing to conduct livestock product inspections (2 cases), storing livestock products for sale without disposal markings (1 case), storing and selling expired livestock products (1 case), arbitrarily extending expiration dates (1 case), and storing refrigerated livestock products in frozen conditions (1 case).

For example, Company A failed to conduct the required inspection of seasoning meat it produced itself according to livestock product processing standards and ingredient specifications at least once every nine months after opening the supermarket. Additionally, it was caught storing 32.5 kg of unmarked products in the refrigerated and frozen rooms at the business site, with no indication of meat type, cut name, or manufacturing date.

Company B is suspected of not conducting processing standards and ingredient specification inspections on its self-produced livestock products and storing and selling expired livestock products.

Company C processed and packaged Korean beef ribs (Hanwoo galbi) with a set expiration date of 10 days but arbitrarily extended the expiration date to 45 days for sale, and Company D was caught storing 50.1 kg of refrigerated pork belly in frozen conditions without disposal markings.

The city’s special judicial police sealed and confiscated all fraudulent and substandard livestock products found at the sites of the companies. They also requested administrative action from the relevant district offices and plan to transfer the cases to the prosecution after the investigation concludes.

Han Sun-hee, Director of the City’s Citizen Safety Office, stated, “Hygienic management and proper labeling of livestock products are important to guarantee consumers’ right to know and to establish a sound trading order. The city will continue investigations to create an environment for the distribution and sale of livestock products that consumers can trust.”

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