Gyeonggi-do Special Judicial Police Corps found a food company in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do that supplies dough for hot dogs, a snack food for children.
Hot dog dough ingredients that should be kept at room temperature are stacked in the freezer.
[Gyeonggi-do Special Judicial Police Corps: Is this also necessary for dough?]
[Company official: Yes.]
[Gyeonggi-do Special Judicial Police Corps: Usually, if you look here, everything is at room temperature (storage).
The things needed for dough are often at room temperature (storage).]
The company broke the rules to keep the dough ingredients for a long time and was caught in the freezer.
Another donut manufacturing and processing company in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province, was caught storing more than 100 kg of raw materials that exceeded the expiration date for up to six months.
[Gyeonggi-do special envoy
: (These) are stored past the expiration date, and then the butter compound should be stored frozen, but it is now confirmed to us that it is stored at room temperature.]
We inspected 360 companies and found 53 businesses that violated regulations such as the Food Sanitation Act.
[Jeong Young-nam / Gyeonggi-do Special Judicial Police Investigation Team Leader: Detected a total of 56 illegal acts on the spot, including storage of expired products, violation of food preservation standards, non-reporting of changes in business area, and false indication of country of origin.]
Changes in awareness of food safety in Gyeonggi-do He said he would strengthen the crackdown to eradicate illegal activities.
(Covering: Han Joo-han, Video coverage: Seol Seol-hwan, Editing: Jo Moo-hwan, Screen provision: Gyeonggi-do, Production: D Content Planning Department)