Input 2021.01.26 14:15 | Revision 2021.01.26 14:21
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On the 26th, Judge Jang Young-chae, who was solely responsible for criminal 11 of the Seoul Central District Court, held a selection day with Song Mo, the management director of M Company, a beef patty supplier who was detained for violating the Livestock Sanitation Control Act.
The court sentenced Song to three years in prison and four years probation. The plant manager and the quality control team leader were also sentenced to three years in prison, four years in probation, and two years in prison and four years in probation. Company M, who was prosecuted together under the concession rules, was sentenced to a fine of 40 million won.
Song and others were handed over to trial on charges of distributing 63 tons of beef patties that were positive as a result of a kit test to check for intestinal hemorrhagic E. coli contamination.
In addition, there is a suspicion of selling about 2,000 tons of beef patties in which the Shiga toxin gene was detected in PCR (polymerase chain reaction), a test method that amplifies DNA. Shiga toxin is a component of toxin excreted from intestinal hemorrhagic E. coli.
The prosecution received and investigated a complaint against McDonald’s Korea from consumers, but in February 2018, only the officials of Company M turned over to the trial saying that the causal relationship between McDonald’s hamburgers and disease could not be proven.
Consumers claim that the patties ate undercooked McDonald’s hamburgers and suffered from hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
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