Daejeon Special Judicial Police Crack Down on 3 Businesses Selling Domestic Seafood as Imported

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The Daejeon City Special Judicial Police have uncovered three seafood-handling restaurants that disguised imported seafood as domestic products and sold them.

The Special Judicial Police recently conducted a planned investigation targeting local seafood-handling restaurants such as sashimi restaurants, sushi specialty stores, and places dealing with squid, octopus, and anglerfish, and announced on the 27th that they had identified businesses violating the Origin Labeling Act.

According to the Special Judicial Police, Restaurant ㄱ purchased relatively inexpensive Japanese red sea bream and used it as an ingredient for live sashimi set courses, while falsely labeling the origin as domestic red sea bream on the origin display board inside the restaurant.

Business ㄴ mixed Australian squid as an ingredient and sold dishes such as steamed squid, labeling the origin as domestic squid, and Restaurant ㄷ included squid from distant waters in seafood green onion pancakes while falsely labeling it as domestic squid.

The Special Judicial Police plan to impose criminal penalties such as referral to the prosecution and administrative sanctions on these businesses.

Han Sun-hee, Director of the Citizen Safety Office of the city, said, “We will continue to enforce origin labeling regulations on agricultural and marine products to ensure the safety of citizens' food, establish fair trade order, and guarantee consumers' right to know so that these principles can be firmly established in the market.”

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