Special Inspection on New Rice... Focused Check on 'False Production Year Labeling and Mixing with Imported Rice'
On-site Inspection of Rice Processing Plants and Group Meal Suppliers
Online Sales Monitoring Using Cyber Enforcement Team
Up to 3 Years Imprisonment or Fines for Violations
The National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service announced on the 14th that it will conduct a special crackdown for 75 days from the 18th, when the new rice season begins in earnest, until December 1st.
This special crackdown will focus on investigating grain processing companies such as Rice Processing Complexes (RPC) and forest road processing plants, suppliers for group meals, companies that have violated grain labeling regulations in the past five years, collective meal service centers near industrial complexes, school meal suppliers, and low-priced rice handling businesses for event products.
The main inspection items include false labeling of rice production year, origin, milling date, mixing of new and old rice, or mixing of domestic and foreign rice. Additionally, a cyber inspection team (300 members) will continuously monitor online shopping malls and other telecommunication sales companies selling rice at prices lower than the market price. For rice suspected of violations, distribution stage investigations will be conducted using genetic (DNA) analysis.
Companies found guilty will face criminal penalties under the Grain Management Act for false labeling (imprisonment of up to 3 years or a fine up to five times the market value of the used or disposed grain), and fines of up to 2 million won for failure to label.
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Park Seong-woo, head of the Agricultural Products Quality Management Service, stated, "There is a possibility of increased illegal distribution of grain labeling during the new rice shipment period," and urged, "If you suspect illegal grain labeling, please report it to the Illegal Distribution Reporting Center or the website from anywhere nationwide."
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