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As the price of cooking oil has risen a lot this year, the burden on restaurants that eat a lot of fried food like chicken restaurants has increased.

However, there are products on the market that are distributed much cheaper than others.



Reporter Jae Hee-won covered it.



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It is edible oil for businesses supplied to franchise stores and food material marts.



The price of an 18-liter bottle is around 50,000 won.



It is almost 10,000 won cheaper than other cooking oils sold on the market.



However, there were complaints about the quality of this product.



[Cooking oil distributor: It is too bad to fry.

No matter how cheap it is, it will not be used



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There is a sign saying that it is an edible oil manufacturer, and various edible oil products are displayed at the entrance of the office.



However, as a result of checking with the local government, this was an unlicensed factory that did not register for food manufacturing.



The law strictly stipulates that a food manufacturing plant manufactures and distributes products only after it is equipped with the relevant facilities and registered as a manufacturing and processing business in accordance with the law.



The CEO of the factory, who had been importing oil from abroad to make and sell cooking oil, said that he only sold some stock in the process of registering after relocating the factory, and insisted that he never made a new one.



[CEO of the company: I have produced a prototype a few times.

But nothing was sold.

I don't know what we saw.]



However, the current factory address was written on the sold products, and the local government did not even apply for registration.



Even while the CEO explains to the reporters, the cooking oil that was in storage is loaded onto the truck one by one.



[CEO: Are you keeping this in the warehouse over there?]



[Employee: No.

There are some that we keep and some that we deliver.]



After the SBS interview, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, which started an investigation, first confirmed that 4,500 bottles of 18 liters, a total of 80,000 liters of unverified cooking oil, were sold and took a recall action. got off



[Kim Tae-min/Food Lawyer: They must have gone to regular restaurants, but they are all in a state we don’t know right now, and if edible oils and fats are not properly processed, they contain a lot of impurities and can be very harmful to the human body.]



Yeoju, who was late to investigate the site As a fine is imposed on the company and the accusation is under review, the exact ingredients and uses are expected to be confirmed through investigation.



(Video editing: Ha Seong-won, VJ: Jeong Young-sam)