[파이낸셜뉴스] In Beijing, China, a large supermarket that was selling the same meat by manipulating its expiry date by simply changing the production date was caught by a famous influencer.
According to local media such as China China Network on the 25th (local time), it was revealed that the expiry date of meat sold in a large supermarket was manipulated by Chinese influencer ‘Wang Hong’.
Wang Hong, who bought meat with a production date stamped on April 17th, confirmed on the Internet that this supermarket sold meat with the same color and texture on the 18th and 19th.
Wang Hong claimed that the supermarket had been selling the same meat on different dates for four days since the 16th.
He asked the supermarket worker, “Don’t they sell meat produced on the same day, just by changing the date?” Local media reported that the counter workers initially denied it, saying “It’s not the same meat,” but the worker in charge of the butcher department admitted that he sold the same meat only with different dates.
This worker reportedly asked, “Should we throw out all the meat that’s okay to eat just because it doesn’t sell?”
However, the store manager is said to deny the claims, saying, “The date was not manipulated.”
Chinese netizens who heard the story responded by saying, “If this happens even in large supermarkets, who can we trust?”, “This is a clear act of deceiving consumers,” and “A thorough investigation must be conducted to find out the truth .”
Previously, there was controversy in China when an incident occurred where the manufacturing date of food production was falsely recorded.
On the 26th of last month, an elementary school in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, received criticism after it was revealed that the bread manufacturing date distributed to students for a spring picnic event was listed as the 27th, the day after the picnic.
Even then, Chinese netizens criticized the company, mocking it and calling it “bread that travels through time using a time machine.”
Experts pointed out that “this incident clearly reveals the lax attitude and control gaps in the food production process,” and urged the industry to make efforts to correct itself and for control and supervision thoroughly by the authorities.
newssu@fnnews.com Reporter Kim Soo-yeon
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