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FDA warns of buy-one-get-one fish and soybean sauce

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BANGKOK: -- The Food and Drug Administration has issued an announcement warning the public to be wary of fake fish sauce and soybean sauce following arrests by police of vehicles peddling counterfeits of well known fish sauce and soybean sauce brands.

These fake products have no nutritional value and authorities fear long consumption of them could damage kidneys or even cause cancer.

The warning followed inspection by authorities at various marketplaces after receiving complaints from the public about fake sauces.

The Consumer Protection Police Division along with the Food and Drug Administration yesterday publicly displayed confiscated counterfeit fish and soy sauce in a press conference.

The intention is to inform the public of the dangers of consuming these products as well as inform consumers on what characteristics to look out for when purchasing these goods.

The main differentiating features are fake labels and the content which normally is indicated as cubic centimeter (cc) but is shown as Thai characters in the fake one.

Further indicators are loose caps and unclear expiratory dates.

These counterfeit goods are regularly sold at market fairs usually employing buy one get one free promotions.

The recent arrest of these counterfeit fish and soy sauce has been primarily in the Esan (northeast) region of the country.

Following these arrests, police have managed to track down the production source which is located in Pathumthani province.

The factory producing the fake fish and soy sauce has been in operation for three years and has a daily production capacity of 300 barrels which has a value of one million baht.

The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers to the dangers of consuming these products as they are produced by adding salted water to a leavening agent.

They possess no nutritional value and long term consumption can run the risk of cancers, authorities warned.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/fda-warns-buy-one-get-one-fish-soyabean-sauce

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-- Thai PBS 2015-02-18

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Thai fish sauce - number one in the news again. Thais put sauce on everything - They kill the taste of the food with their sauces and then it all tastes the same except for that rotten smelling Nan pik Gupik. That fermented fish paste that they crave.

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What about stating the name of the product and a photo,instead of some "half assed" warning. Or does that impinge on Thailands crazy defamation laws?

Probably because the FDA has already indicated how to distinguish the fakes and where they are likely to be sold, market fairs with free promotions, i.e. not at Tesco, Big C, 7-11, or similar, and they know that only the half-arsed would need a picture?

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What about stating the name of the product and a photo,instead of some "half assed" warning. Or does that impinge on Thailands crazy defamation laws?

Probably because the FDA has already indicated how to distinguish the fakes and where they are likely to be sold, market fairs with free promotions, i.e. not at Tesco, Big C, 7-11, or similar, and they know that only the half-arsed would need a picture?

Ah so only "buy one get one free"need to be concerned about and because its not at supermarket we all know what it looks like! idiot! ". "Hundreds of years of history and what did Switzerland produce?..the cuckoo clock.-The Third Man (Graham Greene) Edited by kingalfred
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"These fake products have no nutritional value and authorities fear long consumption of them could damage kidneys or even cause cancer".

That's interesting. Fish sauce only has one notable mineral and no notable vitamins. !00mg serving contains 43% of recommended daily intake. Magnesium is abundant in the body anyway! It also contains 327% of daily recommended intake of sodium which we certainly don't need. Soy sauce has even less in the way of vitamins or minerals and contains 228% RDI of Sodium. So how can the fake stuff be any worse nutritionally when the original has no nutritional value?

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