Changwon Special City Takes Steps to Improve Hygiene and Safety Management Issues

Traditional Market Food Safety Management Meeting Held

Changwon Special City in Gyeongnam held a meeting at the Bonggok Market Merchants' Association Education Center to evaluate the 2023 traditional market food safety management and to discuss improvements for hygiene and safety-related issues.

Traditional Market Food Safety Management Meeting.

The meeting held on the 22nd focused on 127 businesses with weak basic hygiene levels within Bonggok, Yanggok, and Dongmasan Markets, which were selected as targets for the 2023 traditional market food safety management project. Continuous inspections were conducted from April to November.

The main inspection items included ▲ unreported business operations, violations of business types involving operations of other industries ▲ use of non-food utensils (such as recycled rubber basins, onion nets, etc.). After guidance and inspection, a hygiene level evaluation was conducted. The businesses showed an average improvement rate of 22.3%, and six excellent businesses were selected. The business owners were encouraged and provided with ultraviolet knife sterilizers as incentives.

This project is continuously implemented not as enforcement-focused administration but through guidance, improvement, and safe hygiene management in traditional markets, which are hygiene-vulnerable areas, to enhance hygiene levels and secure safe food for citizens.

Lee Jong-min, Director of the Health and Hygiene Division, stated, “We will do our best in managing food safety in traditional markets. Additionally, we will thoroughly prevent winter fires to ensure that citizens can purchase food safely at traditional markets, striving to create a safe traditional market.”

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