From the Joongang Ilbo:
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said it found potentially harmful germs and high levels of bacteria in iced coffees and ice at 11 well-known chains, including Starbucks, McDonald’s and Dunkin’ Donuts.
The recent investigation, conducted jointly with the National Council of the Green Consumers Network in Korea, involved 153 coffee and fast-food franchise locations nationwide.
Officials discovered that 18 of the locations investigated served drinks or used ice containing either harmful germs or levels of bacteria deemed risky to human health.
The food administration said it found, for instance, that the Hyperion Starbucks in eastern Seoul used ice contaminated with staphylococcus aureus, which is known to cause food poisoning. The ice also contained 12 times the maximum number of a certain type of bacteria allowable by law.
A list of the stores with unsafe ice is posted as an .hwp file at the bottom of this KFDA release. There are two local establishments with unsafe levels of bacteria: the Yeoseo branch of Dunkin Donuts in Yeosu, and the Wolgye branch of Tom n' Toms in Gwangju.
8 comments:
So its the ice that is the problem right? Not the establishments themselves? Im not sure if the ice cubes that they were using came from a certain ice factory (which might be the source of contamination), but most likely it is.
How is it legal to name names? It sounds like the KFDA has opened itself up to the possibility of lawsuits.
What is it with the obsession with the HWP format? I would love to same I'm surprised that a government organization releases these docs in a format only readable using proprietary software, but who is really? Is it SO hard to release a pdf version‽‽
BTW - if anyone could download, convert, and repost a PDF version, that would be sweet!
I don't know how to put it in .pdf, but I converted it to .doc and put it up on waygook.org, a teaching site I help run. (I can't host files on my own site)
http://waygook.org/index.php?topic=791.0
It is a fairly strict government policy that all documents created by governmental organizations use Hangul WP.
How about them Pens?
Was amused to see this update, as I met my coworkers at the Starbucks by Uijeongbu Station on Monday - ordered an "Ice Signature Coffee" while we were there - and came down with a really bad stomachache a few hours later.
David I've been in Korea nearly four years. During that time I've been away from 2 Super Bowl wins and 2 Stanley Cup appearances. When I go back home, given my luck, I'll bet you the Penguins will immediately sign Dan Kesa, Rico Fata, and will trade Malkin to the Capitals for three nobodies.
Is it really government policy to use .hwp?
Samedi: Are you serious
Correction, it was an "Ice Signature Chocolate" and not a coffee. Other than that, it's all true. I didn't eat breakfast, so I know it wasn't from anything else I'd had that day, nor was it hunger pangs. Half of my coworkers - two of four women - ordered hot drinks, which makes me wonder if maybe it wasn't food poisoning, since the other two felt fine afterward. However, when I mentioned the article to a coworker yesterday she suggested that the other teachers had built up an immunity from going to Starbucks and/or having drinks with ice in Korea more often than I.
I normally don't get sick easily, so who knows.
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