<기사제목>MFDS to Conduct Intensive Collection and Inspection of Winter High-Consumption Seafood Until February Next Year

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced on the 7th that, in preparation for the winter season when seafood production increases, it will conduct intensive collection and inspection from the 7th of this month until February 23rd of next year in collaboration with local governments and six regional food and drug safety offices to prevent food poisoning and other issues.

This collection and inspection will target approximately 700 cases of seafood sold both online and offline, including raw oysters, dried seaweed, gwamegi, dried pollack, and simply processed seafood such as delivery sashimi. The collected seafood will be intensively tested focusing on items with a history of non-compliance.

Raw oysters will be tested for E. coli and norovirus, dried seaweed will be checked for the use of sweeteners such as saccharin sodium, gwamegi and dried pollack will be tested for compliance with heavy metal standards, and delivery sashimi will be inspected for veterinary drugs and food poisoning bacteria.

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety plans to promptly ban sales and recall seafood judged to be non-compliant based on inspection results, and will post information about non-compliance on the Food Safety Korea website.

According to the Ministry, last year’s collection and inspection results of high-consumption seafood found norovirus in 5 cases of raw oysters and saccharin sodium in 6 cases of dried seaweed.

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