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View all search resultsGreater Jakarta: Illegal food seized ahead of Idul Fitri
The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) has seized a number of illegal and harmful food products that have entered through Tanjung Priok port in North Jakarta and circulated in the capital city ahead of Idul Fitri
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he Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) has seized a number of illegal and harmful food products that have entered through Tanjung Priok port in North Jakarta and circulated in the capital city ahead of Idul Fitri.
The agency stated that as of early July, it had confiscated a wide range of illegal food products worth more than Rp 7.5 billion (US$564,000).
'The products are mostly sauce, flour, vinegar, cooking oil, salt and canned vegetables and fruits. We have seized all of them,' BPOM head Roy Sparringa said on Monday as quoted by kompas.com.
He said that the illegal food products came from a number of countries in Asia and America, including China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.
The agency has intensified its monitoring of illegal food products during the fasting month of Ramadhan. Roy said that during the Idul Fitri holiday, consumer demand for food was on the rise and so people took advantage of the situation by selling illegal products.
