South Korea: Peeled garlic from China turns into domestic, 58 tons sold per day for 2 years

Published 2023년 4월 13일

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A company representative has been caught selling around 58.2 tons of Chinese peeled garlic as domestic garlic in South Korea for about two years, starting in August 2020. The individuals, aged in their 50s and 60s, sold the Chinese garlic at the peeled garlic factory in Cheongyang-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, with a market value of 410 million won. They took advantage of consumer preference for domestic products and the price gap between domestic and Chinese garlic, potentially making an unfair profit of around 200 million won. They also used the 'Nonghyup' trade name without permission to deceive consumers. The individuals have been accused of violating the law on the labeling of origin of agricultural and marine products.

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(Daejeon = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kang Su-hwan = A party was caught selling peeled garlic from China as domestic for about two years. The Chungnam Branch of the National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service (Chungnam Agricultural Administration Agency) sent without detention a representative of a peeled garlic processing company, Mr. A in his 60s and Mr. B in his 50s, a factory manager, who sold Chinese peeled garlic under the guise that it was domestic, on charges of violating the law on the labeling of origin of agricultural and marine products. 13 the day said Mr. A and B are accused of distributing Chinese-made peeled garlic in packaging marked as domestic and supplying it to the wholesale market about 150 times at the peeled garlic factory in Cheongyang-gun, Chungcheongnam-do for two years and two months from August 2020 to November last year. are receiving Garlic sold in the market by deceiving the country of origin is 58.2 tons, with a market value of 410 ...

Source: Yna