Yongin Special City Strengthens Hygiene Inspections on New Year's Holiday Foods

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Choi Ki-ho] Yongin Special City announced on the 18th that it will conduct intensive inspections from the 19th to the 23rd to strengthen hygiene management of New Year's holiday foods whose demand is surging ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday.

The city will form inspection teams composed of civil servants and consumer food hygiene monitors to conduct hygiene inspections targeting major supermarkets, food manufacturing and processing facilities, and restaurants in the region.

Key inspection items include △whether expired products are being used, stored, or sold △compliance with hygienic handling standards for food △whether unregistered or unlabeled products are being used.

In particular, the city plans to conduct sampling inspections on rice cakes, Korean confectioneries, and ancestral rite foods, which see increased consumption, to preemptively block the distribution of non-compliant foods.

The city will require immediate correction of minor violations at the inspection site, and will take administrative measures according to relevant laws for serious violations.

A city official said, "We will thoroughly manage to ensure that citizens can safely purchase and consume food during the Lunar New Year holiday," and asked for "the interest and cooperation of food manufacturing and sales businesses and citizens."