A food manufacturer in Beijing is defending the “freshness” of its mooncakes after a customer questioned two different production dates on packaging, one from more than a year ago.
A spokesperson for the Beijing Er Shang Group, whose dual-dated mooncakes were being sold in Beijing supermarkets, said the packaging had been reused from last year but the mooncakes were freshly made, the Beijing Morning Post reported.
A customer, whose full name was not disclosed, noticed two production dates – one for August 21 this year and the other from August 1 last year – on packages of mooncakes he bought at a local supermarket.
The mooncakes are good for up to 60 days, according to the packaging. “If the first date is true, the mooncakes have been expired for almost a year,” the customer said.
Many of the same company’s mooncakes in other supermarkets also showed the 2015 production date, which had not been completely erased, the report said.
