Use of milk cheaper than goat's milk to lower costs
Illegal goat oil manufacturer sells 41 tons worth 1.8 billion won
A group of people who sold it by mixing a small amount of popular goat oil into milk because it was known to digest well and tricking it into 100% goat oil were caught.
They decorated fake test reports and kept proper goat oil separately in preparation for random tests.
Reporter Kim Joo-young reports.
[Reporter]
The warehouse of the raw material importer of mountain goat oil is full of boxes containing raw materials.
The shelf is well-digested and contains a lot of nutrients, so it is also topped with 100% mountain goat oil, known as high-end.
But it was all fake.
[Official of the raw material importer of goat's oil: (KMA staff: Is it made of 100% goat's oil?)] "No." It's a mixture of cows and goats.]
They used milk that was relatively cheaper than goat milk to lower costs.
Indian manufacturers that make the raw materials were instructed to mix large amounts of milk and small amounts of goat oil, which was only 1.5 percent.
[Kim Young-chun / Officer of the Central Investigation Team on Hazardous Crimes at the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety] If you look, you can't tell by your eyes. Mouth or mouth touch (It's hard to tell.)
This was not the only problem.
Processors that make products in Korea with fake goat oil ingredients have secretly mixed milk protein products that are cheaper than fake goat oil to create finished products, saying they would save money again.
The products made and sold in this way are 41 tons, worth 1.8 billion won in total.
They even showed the meticulousness of making and storing unproblematic processed products separately in order to avoid crackdowns.
[Kim Young-jo / Head of the KFDA's Hazardous Crime Central Investigation Division: (The companies in question) submitted false test results to the KFDA as if they were manufactured with 100% goat's oil, and instructed brokers to delete related data.]
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety caught three companies, arrested two people, including the CEO, and sent five people without detention.
In addition, 4.4 tons of illegal products were confiscated from the company and products distributed and sold were recovered.
I'm Kim Joo-young of YTN.
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