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There are many people looking for a deep Dutch coffee that is slowly brewed with cold water.
As a result of the investigation by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, some products of Dutch coffee sold on the Internet found bacteria that exceeded the standard.
Some even exceeded 14,000 times.
This is reporter Kim Hyung-rae.
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is a Dutch coffee manufacturer in Busan.
The container that holds the coffee beans has no lid, so it is exposed to dust, and the container that holds the brewed coffee juice has a lot of residue.
Another manufacturer in Gimpo, Gyeonggi.
It is clear that brown ground sticks to the coffee machine.
[There is no special sterilization part, only the water purifier is passed through...
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(Then, how will these parts be washed, washing is….) Just keep passing water through.] The
Ministry of Food and Drug Safety investigated 39 Dutch coffee products sold in internet shopping malls, and found that 7 products exceeded the allowed limit. Has been detected.
Some products have detected bacteria at 14,000 times the allowable level.
The products found this time were made where the floor or walls of the workshop were contaminated, or where the coffee brewing apparatus was not well cleaned.
[Jae-joon Oh/Director of Food Safety Field Investigation Team, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety: It gives a fatal harm to a person right now.
(But) it means that workplace hygiene management or equipment cleaning is not working properly.]
Because Dutch coffee is brewed with cold water for a long time, unlike hot coffee, it is vulnerable to bacterial growth.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety discarded products that were found to be non-conformity, and imposed a suspension of product manufacturing on manufacturers for 15 days.
(Video editing: Wonhee Won, screen provided: Ministry of Food and Drug Safety)