Coffee maker roasted for producing fake product in Cambodia

Police found 60 sacks of soybeans, six sacks of first-grade coffee beans, 10 sacks of second-grade coffee beans, six sacks of roasted coffee beans, a butter mixing machine and a sugar mixing machine. - The Phnom Penh Post/Asian News Network

PHNOM PENH, July 6 (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): The Cambodian Ministry of Interior’s Counter Counterfeit Committee will send a suspect to court on Monday after she allegedly roasted coffee mixed with soybeans and other ingredients, creating a product which could pose a high risk to consumers’ health.

On the afternoon of July 2, the Committee, headed by Kandal Provincial Court deputy prosecutor Ek Sun Reaksmey inspected and closed 33-year-old Thun Nath’s coffee roasting operation in Kraing Mkak commune’s Trapeang Khtoem village in Ang Snuol district.