A food company in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, has been fined 1.4 million yuan ($225,481) for storing 32.86 tons of expired papaya products, some of which had been frozen for more than five years, Qianjiang evening news reported on Tuesday.
The products, confiscated at a storage facility in Jiangbei district in Ningbo, had expired more than two years ago, according to Wang, an officer responsible for market supervision in Jiangbei district, Ningbo.
An inspection conducted by Wang's team found that the food company purchased a total of 60 tons of expired frozen papaya, at a price of 6.7 yuan per kilogram between 2010 and 2011.
The inventory shows that around 34.22 tons of expired frozen papaya was taken from the refrigerator by the company for production between April to October in 2010, while the latest record shows 25 tons of expired frozen papaya products was sold to a food processing company.
