Chicken breast salad Some products do not conform to the nutritional content labeling standard...What is the standard for low-salt and low-calorie content?
Jan 09, 2025
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The Korea Consumer Agency surveyed the safety of 30 subscribed chicken breast salad products sold on online platforms and found that hygiene management was insufficient, such as the detection of E. coli in some products, and nutritional labeling was inaccurate.
As a result of investigating the safety of sanitary bacteria and food poisoning bacteria, 13 (43.3%) of the 30 products surveyed were found to be inappropriate because E. coli exceeding the standard was detected.
E. coli is a bacterium present in the intestines of humans and animals, and when detected in food, it can be considered that food is unsanitized and managed, and pathogenic bacteria are also likely to exist in food. Symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, and vomiting appear when infected with E. coli. However, Salmonella, enterohemorrhagic E. coli, and Staphylococcus aureus were not detected in all products.
For consumers who purchase foods such as salads for health care and weight control, the nutritional content is a standard for purchase and selection, so accurate information needs to be provided. However, five of the six products that emphasized specific nutritional ingredients, such as low salt and low calorific value, did not meet the nutritional emphasis labeling criteria set in 'food, etc.'
Low salt is less than 305 mg/100 g of salt and low calorific value is less than 40 kcal/100 g. The high protein standard is more than 20% (11g) of the daily nutritional content standard (55g) per intake reference amount (1).
In terms of nutritional emphasis ingredients, two products emphasizing high protein met the criteria, but all five products emphasizing low salt and low calorific value exceeded the criteria and were inappropriate. As a result of examining the nutritional content of 17 products with nutritional content among the 30 products surveyed, six products were out of the error range set by the standard. In particular, fat was found to be up to 185% higher than the indication.
Meanwhile, 12 of the 30 products surveyed posted advertisements on online sales pages that consumers could misidentify, such as 'diabetes', 'Weight Loss Purpose', and 'Losing to 15 Key', indicating that improvement was needed.
The Korea Consumer Agency urged people to carefully check the nutritional content when purchasing products and to refrigerate the products delivered when purchasing online and consume them as soon as possible.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
