Health · Public Health & Disease · 6 hrs ago
Chocolate maker keeps HACCP certification despite repeated contamination
A South Korean chocolate maker’s products had foreign objects detected repeatedly over roughly four years.
The company, identified only as A, makes chocolate for a well-known brand.
The detected items included mold, plastic, hair, vinyl and rubber.
There were 18 food hygiene violations, including 14 cases involving foreign objects, making the company the most-violating firm among 11,319 HACCP-certified food businesses as of the end of last year.
The company still holds HACCP certification, South Korea’s government food safety management certification.
The figures raise questions about how certification relates to repeated violations, but no change to the company’s certification is reported.
A chocolate maker has retained its HACCP food-safety certification despite repeated reports of foreign material in its products.
Over a period of about four years, the company’s products reportedly contained mold seven times, plastic three times and hair twice.
Vinyl and rubber were each found once.
Seven foreign-material incidents were recorded in the previous year alone.
At the end of that year, the company had the highest number of food hygiene law violations among 11,319 HACCP-certified food businesses.
- Who
- Company A, which makes chocolate for a well-known brand.
- What
- Foreign materials were repeatedly found in its products, but it still holds HACCP certification.
- When
- Over the past four years or so; seven incidents were reported in the previous year.
- Where
- Not stated.
- Why
- Not stated.
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Foreign materials were found in the company’s products, including mold, plastic, hair, vinyl and rubber.
Seven foreign-material incidents were reported.
The company had 18 food hygiene law violations, including 14 cases involving foreign material, the highest total among 11,319 HACCP-certified food businesses.
The company still held HACCP certification.
- Mold
- Found 7 times
- Plastic
- Found 3 times
- Hair
- Found 2 times
- Previous year
- 7 foreign-material incidents
- Violations
- 18 total, including 14 involving foreign material
- HACCP-certified businesses
- 11,319 at the end of the previous year