Food Items for Ancestral Rites and Gifts Including Tteok, Jeon, and Jogi Fish
The Ulsan City Health and Environment Research Institute will conduct food safety inspections in preparation for the Lunar New Year holiday from January 6 to 9, in collaboration with the City Food and Drug Safety Division and district and county hygiene departments.
This inspection targets ceremonial and gift foods distributed in local traditional markets, department stores, large supermarkets, and wholesale markets.
The main items include ▲ processed foods (traditional Korean sweets, rice cakes, tofu, seasoned seaweed, nuts, alcoholic beverages, etc.) ▲ health functional foods (red ginseng, probiotics, nutritional supplements, etc.) ▲ prepared foods (fried foods, jeon, sikhye, etc.) ▲ seafood (dried yellow corvina, croaker, pollock, octopus, etc.).
The inspection items cover acid value, preservatives, benzo[a]pyrene, total aflatoxins, heavy metals, methanol, food poisoning bacteria such as Salmonella, pesticide residues, and veterinary drug residues.
For products found to be non-compliant, prompt administrative actions such as recall and disposal will be taken according to relevant laws to prevent the distribution of non-compliant products in the market.
An institute official stated, “Ahead of the traditional Lunar New Year holiday, we will conduct proactive inspections so that citizens can purchase ceremonial and gift foods with confidence, and we will do our best to create a safe food environment.”
Last year during the Lunar New Year holiday, 72 cases of processed foods such as rice cakes, glass noodles, edible oils, and alcoholic beverages, 19 cases of prepared foods such as fried foods and jeon, and 20 cases of agricultural and marine products such as flounder, oysters, and napa cabbage were inspected, with all items found to meet the standard specifications.
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