Restaurant may face charges for adding ants to 12,000 dishes


A restaurant that used ants to add “unique flavour” is facing possible charges of violating the Food Sanitation Act, as ants are not a type of insect deemed edible by South Korean law.

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said on July 10 it has transferred the case of a local restaurant and its owner to prosecutors for the eatery’s use of imported dried ants in the dishes.

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