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vendor has been caught selling Chinese sesame oil and red pepper powder as 100% domestic.
The company's products even took the top spot in sales in online shopping malls.
This is TJB reporter Kim Chul-jin.
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crackdown team attacks a food processing company in Dong-gu, Daejeon.
[The seizure and search warrant has been executed.] The
crackdown team, who entered the warehouse with the staff, opens the product raw material sack, takes pictures, and puts sesame seeds of different origins in both hands to compare.
[Is there any sesame from China?] A group
of people who made sesame oil with only 20% of the domestic price and sold it as a 100% domestic product was caught by the National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service.
Mainly, they made sesame oil, perilla oil, and red pepper powder from Chinese raw materials and sold them domestically.
They even changed the label of Chinese sesame oil purchased from other companies and tricked them into supplying 100% domestic products.
Consumers as well as corporate customers were gullible, and it was discovered that the company continued to violate the country of origin label even under investigation.
[Ha Dae-ok / Agricultural Products Quality Management Institute, Chungnam Branch Mobile Enforcement Team Leader: (Fake the country of origin) The price is cheap and it is sold as domestic, so it was ranked first in the sales category of sesame oil in January 2021 at a famous online shopping mall in Korea. ] In
this way, the country of origin was deceived and sold, earning 280 million won in unfair profits since June last year.
The Agricultural Products Quality Management Service plans to publish this company information on its website in accordance with related laws and send it to the prosecution within this month.