This time, a cigarette butt came out from the Nogari, which is controversial.



Cigarette butts and sand have recently appeared in Chinese perilla leaf side dishes, raising public anxiety about food safety, and this has happened again.



According to a press on the 7th, office worker A in his 40s living in the Chungcheongnam-do area found that the cigarette butt filter was dry while eating the Nogari product of company B, which he bought at a large mart near his house on the night of the 26th of last month.



At first, he thought that there was a thick egg attached to the belly of the nogari, and took it to his mouth, but when he looked closely, he noticed that a cigarette butt was attached to someone who was smoking.



Person A complained to the nogari company on the 5th to raise awareness about food safety and reported to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. As a result, Company B's Nogari was found to be made in China.



It is presumed that cigarette butts stuck to the nogari while Chinese fishermen went out to sea to catch and dry them.



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Company B admits that when it imports nogari from China, it goes through the foreign material check process several times, but this time, the sorting work was not done properly, so this happened.



In addition, although the manufacturer is emphasizing cleanliness, it is believed that the problem occurred because local inspections for hygiene management in China were not performed for two to three years after the outbreak of Corona 19.



An official from Company B apologized, "I'm really sorry to the consumer. I will do more thorough hygiene management to prevent this from happening," said a company B official.



“A few days ago, when I saw the news that cigarette butts came out of sesame leaves from China, I thought I should publicize it for food safety,” he said.



On the other hand, last month, cigarette butts were found in Chinese sesame leaves purchased at a local side dish store, followed by sesame leaves covered with sand like a seasoning, raising public distrust.



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