Highway convenience stores suspected of using expired food to make tea, eggs and coffee.

A convenience store in Dongshan service area is accused of using expired eggs and fresh milk to make tea eggs and lattes and sell them to customers.

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The convenience store in Dongshan Service area, No. 3 National Highway in Taiwan, which has the highest satisfaction, was revealed by former employees that expired eggs and fresh milk were boiled into tea eggs and fresh milk coffee respectively in May and June this year. He reported to his supervisor that it was ineffective, so he recorded the certificate privately and reported it to the Tainan City Health Bureau last week. The authorities went to the inspection on Thursday (3rd) and did not find out, and the operators also made public the temporary storage area and the tea egg production process on Friday (4th) to clarify.

The whistleblower provided a total of 12 films, filmed from May 18 to June 16. In the picture, there is milk in use in the coffee machine, as well as eggs and milk in stock, and the invoice for the day is taken to prove that the milk and eggs are expired, some of which are 10 days overdue, and there are no other new eggs and milk in the warehouse. The former employee said that according to statistics, 2000 eggs and 55 bottles of milk had been "processed" sold in 18 days.

However, Nanrenhu Group, which operates the Dongshan service area, stressed that it had never sold any expired goods to consumers, and that the employee was accused of retaliation, maliciously placed expired and then disclosed to the media, and would reserve the right of legal action against him.

Chen Mingxu, head of the Food and Drug Administration Section of the Tainan Municipal Health Bureau, said on Friday that after receiving public representations, the authorities sent personnel to the scene on Thursday to inspect and found no overdue products. Only five empty bottles of fresh milk were found in garbage bags, including two bottles that were kept until July 27.

Chen Mingxu also pointed out that the store manager told the inspectors that the garbage was cleaned up once a week. The Municipal Health Bureau will later conduct interviews in accordance with administrative procedures to determine whether the claims of the operators are true, so as to ensure the safety of consumers.