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Residents’ tip off led to raid on expired food warehouse
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West Jakarta Police present suspects and confiscated evidence from a business accused of dealing in expired food products during a press conference at a warehouse in Tambora, where the expired food was stored, on March 20. (Warta Kota/Panji Baskhara Ramahan)
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he West Jakarta Police have said the raid on PT Pandawa Rezeki Semesta (PRS), a distributor accused of selling expired food to retailers, in Cengkareng was conducted after they received a tip off from residents about suspicious waste dumped by the company.
Head of the West Jakarta Police special crimes unit 2, First Insp. Steven Chang, said the police followed up the report and found the company had thrown away labels of expired products.
The director of the company, identified only as RA, 36, who has been named a suspect, told police the expired products would be destroyed.
“However, in the course of the raid we became suspicious that the workers had changed the labels showing the expiration dates,” Steven said on Wednesday, according to kompas.com.
During the raid, the police confiscated 96,060 food products, a label printer and a bottle of liquid to remove labels.
He added that the company ran its business from several warehouses.
The warehouse in Cengkareng was used to change the labels of expired food products, as well as receiving and distributing the products, Steven said.
Most of the labels were changed in a warehouse in Jembatan Besi, Tambora, he added.
“The products were legally imported. The products have been registered and received distribution permits from the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency [BPOM],” he said.
Besides RA, the police have also named DG, 27, the head of the Cengkareng warehouse, and AH, 33, the head of the Tambora warehouse, as suspects. They have been charged under Law No 18/2012 on food. (cal)
