Arrest of manufacturers operating frozen and refrigerated vehicle thermometers, etc.

Seongnam Sujeong Police Station in Gyeonggi Province booked 56 people, including manufacturer representatives and installers, and three drivers who used them without detention on charges of selling and distributing the temperature recorder of frozen and refrigerated cars.

They are accused of deceiving 4,900 thermometers that can manipulate the temperature from April to September, distributing 900 million won worth of temperature records, or submitting temperature records that were manipulated using them to customers to maintain normal temperatures.

The Food Sanitation Act requires refrigerated products to be preserved and distributed at 0-10℃ and frozen products below minus 18℃, and prevents the installation of a device that can operate a thermometer.

However, the police explained that the actual temperature of the freezer was minus 4°C using a manipulative thermometer, but there were cases where it was decorated as if it were maintained at minus 20°C.

Manufacturers caught manufacturing and distributing operable thermometers favored by drivers to boost sales, and drivers installed them to reduce fuel and maintenance costs for maintaining temperature.

Reporter for shooting
: Yoon So-jung
Provided by the screen: Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency