韩国一无证作坊在移动厕所旁腌白菜、每天50多箱流入市场：污水直排河道
韩国 MBC 11月12日报道，正值腌制越冬泡菜的金酱季，一家未向辖区地方政府申报营业的无证盐渍白菜作坊被查获：作坊设在市郊一处塑料大棚内，旁边就是一座老式移动厕所；腌制过程产生的污水未经处理，直接排入附近河道；这样生产出来的盐渍白菜每天最多50多箱流入市场。
报道说，作坊现场卫生状况极差：作业人员没有佩戴帽子与口罩等基本防护装备，地面上散落着不知何时丢弃的菜叶，装满白菜的盐水缸上放着沾满泥土的胶桶。作坊负责人称，产品通过熟人向一家知名超市供货。报道未点名作坊所在城市与超市名称。
根据韩国现行食品卫生法，未申报经营食品加工销售、在不卫生环境中加工并流通食品，均属严厉处罚对象：违反营业申报规定的，可处3年以下有期徒刑或3000万韩元以下罚金。报道指出，这类规模小、短期经营的流动式非法作坊容易躲避监管，究竟有多少无证盐渍白菜、通过哪些渠道流向市场，仍有待相关部门彻底调查。
（来源：韩国MBC）
Unlicensed South Korean Workshop Pickled Cabbage Beside a Portable Toilet, Sending Over 50 Boxes a Day to Markets; Wastewater Flowed Into a Stream
South Korea's MBC reported on November 12 that, at the height of kimjang season, when households prepare salted cabbage for winter kimchi, an unlicensed salted-cabbage workshop was found operating without having reported its business to the local government: the workshop was set up in a vinyl greenhouse on the outskirts of a city, right beside an old-style portable toilet, and wastewater from the pickling process flowed untreated into a nearby stream; salted cabbage produced there reached markets at a rate of more than 50 boxes a day.
The report said hygiene at the site was extremely poor: workers wore no hats, masks or other basic protective gear, discarded vegetable leaves lay scattered on the floor, and a mud-caked rubber tub sat on top of a brine tank full of cabbage. The person in charge of the workshop said the products were supplied to a well-known supermarket through acquaintances. The report did not name the city where the workshop is located or the supermarket.
Under South Korea's current Food Sanitation Act, processing and selling food without reporting the business, and distributing food processed in unsanitary conditions, are both subject to strict penalties: violating the business-reporting requirement can draw up to three years in prison or a fine of up to 30 million won. The report noted that small, short-lived, itinerant illegal workshops of this kind easily escape regulators' nets, and how much unlicensed salted cabbage reached markets, and through which channels, still awaits a thorough investigation by the authorities.
(Source: MBC)
来源：韩国MBC
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图片来源：图：盐渍白菜（资料图）。照片：Joseph Steinberg，CC BY-SA 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Salted napa cabbage (file photo). Photo by Joseph Steinberg, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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