When you buy a cake on Mother's Day, you will feel at ease when you read the sign clearly.

When you buy a cake on Mother's Day, you will feel at ease when you read the sign clearly.

(Taiwan Business Daily News) as Mother's Day is approaching, many people will choose cakes as gifts to celebrate the festival. In order to make consumers eat healthily and safely, the New Taipei City legal Bureau specially appointed consumer protection officers to investigate 15 bakeries in New Taipei City, mainly focusing on the labeling of cakes sold in the market, so as to ensure the safety of consumers' food.

The consumer protection official said that the Mother's Day cakes sold in the market are bulk food, and according to the "relevant regulations on labeling of bulk Food" announced by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the product name and country of origin (country) or equivalent words should be marked. This survey found that four operators did not indicate their origin, and the consumer protection officer has asked the operators to improve immediately. In addition, the consumer protection officer found that four manufacturers did not clearly mark the manufacturing date or validity period, although the manufacturing date or expiration date is not mandatory for this kind of bulk cake goods, and the manufacturer will verbally inform consumers of the appreciation period when selling, but in order to ensure the safety of consumer food, the consumer protection officer still advises and advises the manufacturer to clearly mark the manufacturing date or validity period.

In addition, although the way of preservation, nutrition labeling, calorie, size (or weight) are not items that should be marked by the Food Safety and Hygiene Management Law, according to Article 5 of the Consumer Protection Law, operators should strive to enrich consumption information and provide consumers with use, so that they can take correct and reasonable consumption behavior. This survey also found that many companies have taken the initiative to mark information such as preservation methods, nutrition labels, calories, size (or weight), etc., so consumer protection officials suggest that consumers should not only consider the appearance and taste of such goods, but also pay attention to product preservation methods, nutrition labels and other information, and should properly preserve and eat appropriate amounts of information according to the labeling information, so as to show the best flavor of the products and take care of their own health.