The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety caught a number of violations at two bread factories supplied by 16 directly managed stores
[시사포커스 / 강민 기자] Particular attention is needed when buying bread at Lotte Department Store or some Lotte Mall stores. The use and storage of expired raw materials at the bakery’Ops’, a bakery famous for the Busan pilgrimage, was discovered. All products using raw materials that have passed the expiration date were discarded. Among the discarded products,’Tiramisu’ and’Opera Cake’, which were limited to the last Christmas season, were also included.
On the 28th, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety agreed with the Food Sanitation Act, such as using and storing ingredients that have passed the expiration date or falsely labeling them as if six months are left in the bread and confectionery manufacturers (bread factories) that supply products to 16 directly managed stores operated by Ops. It revealed that it was found that it violated the law on labeling and advertising of food, etc., and that it requested administrative disposition and investigation.
Violations were confirmed in two Ops bread factories and one department store.
The Ops Bread Factory in Suyeong-gu, Busan, used’fresh egg yolk liquid’ after the expiration date as raw materials for 9 products including bread, and did not control or remedy mold and sanitary pests in the workplace. No changes were reported. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety confiscated and discarded a total of 44.27kg, including Mochador, Eggzotique, Orange Barbaroa, and Opera Cake, which used raw materials that had passed the expiration date.
At the Ops Bread Factory in Nam-gu, Busan, mixed products for making bread products that had passed the expiration date were stored in the mixing room at the workshop, and raw materials for refrigeration were stored frozen. The raw materials stored in the refrigerator were supplied to 16 directly managed stores such as department stores. It manufactured 21 mixed products that did not report on manufacturing and supplied them to 11 directly managed stores, including department stores. The location of the manufacturer was marked as’Suyeong-gu’, and products with false product name, raw material name, and item manufacturing report number were supplied to directly managed stores such as department stores, and some employees did not conduct health checkups.
In addition, Ops Pyeongchon Lotte, which opened in Pyeongchon of Lotte Department Store in Hogye-dong, Anyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, was found to be inadequate in cleaning and disinfecting cutting boards for pie thread dough due to violation of hygienic handling standards, and that cleanliness management was not performed.
Meanwhile, Ops’ direct-managed stores are ▲Suwon Branch (in Lotte Mall Suwon Branch) ▲Incheon Lotte Branch (in Lotte Department Store Incheon Terminal Branch) ▲Seo-Myeon Lotte Branch (Lotte Department Store Busan Main Branch) ▲Sogon Lotte Branch (Lotte Department Store Main Branch) ▲Pyeongchon Lotte Branch ( Lotte Department Store Pyeongchon Branch) ▲ Ulsan Lotte Branch (Lotte Department Store Ulsan Branch) ▲ Gwangbok Lotte Branch (Lotte Department Store Gwangbok Branch) ▲ Namcheon Branch ▲ Haeundae Branch ▲ New Town Branch ▲ Marine City Branch ▲ L Branch ▲ Guseo Branch.
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