Seongnam City Conducts Hygiene Inspections at 496 Children's Favorite Food Vendors

Seongnam City Hall

Seongnam City in Gyeonggi Province is stepping up hygiene and safety management during the summer for businesses handling foods popular among children, such as ice cream, bread, snacks, and tteokbokki.

On the 16th, Seongnam City announced that from the 19th of this month to the 5th of next month, it will conduct inspections and guidance for 496 businesses that prepare and sell children’s preferred foods around schools and academies.

The inspection targets include 99 children’s food safety protection zones within 200 meters of school boundaries and 2 areas densely populated with academies, covering general and casual restaurants, convenience stores, stationery stores, supermarkets, and school stores.

Seongnam City has formed a joint public-private inspection team of 15 members in 6 groups, consisting of 12 dedicated children’s food safety managers and 3 public officials, to check for expired products, display and sale of unreported or unlabeled products, hygiene conditions, and false or exaggerated advertising for each business.

If violations are found, immediate action will be taken on-site, and children’s preferred foods with poor hygiene or safety concerns will be collected and tested.

Seongnam City will request the Gyeonggi-do Institute of Health and Environment to test the collected foods for food poisoning bacteria such as Salmonella, Escherichia coli, and Staphylococcus aureus, and businesses deemed non-compliant will face administrative measures such as a one-month suspension of operations.

These businesses will be subject to repeated inspections until violations are corrected.

A Seongnam City official stated, "We will focus administrative efforts on creating a hygienic food environment so that growing children can safely and healthily consume their food."

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