Gyeonggi Special Judicial Police Conduct Intensive Crackdown on Illegal Activities Including 'Origin Labeling' at 360 School Cafeterias

Gyeonggi Province will launch a focused crackdown on illegal activities in school cafeterias within the province.

Gyeonggi Province will intensively crack down on illegal activities such as hygiene management violations at collective catering facilities, false origin labeling, and the use of expired products from June 5 to 23 to prevent food poisoning during the summer season.

The crackdown targets 360 locations, including collective catering facilities, consigned catering businesses, and collective catering food sales businesses within the province.

The main crackdown items include ▲use of ingredients manufactured, processed, or subdivided by non-business operators ▲false origin labeling ▲non-compliance with storage standards ▲unreported business operations ▲failure to store preserved food ▲use of expired products, among others.

Under the current 'Food Sanitation Act,' manufacturing or cooking food for sale using ingredients produced by unlicensed operators is punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment or a fine of up to 100 million KRW. Violations of food preservation standards and specifications are punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment or a fine of up to 50 million KRW. Additionally, the 'Origin Labeling Act' stipulates that false or misleading origin labeling is punishable by up to 7 years imprisonment or a fine of up to 100 million KRW.

The special judicial police of Gyeonggi Province plan to seize illegal items upon detecting food sanitation-related violations and will track and crack down on related sales and manufacturing companies to completely block the distribution and sale of hazardous food products.

Hong Eun-gi, head of the Provincial Special Judicial Police for Public Welfare, stated, "Through proactive crackdowns on collective catering facilities, we will preemptively block factors threatening the health of residents and thoroughly crack down on illegal activities to prevent food poisoning during the summer season."

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