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Reactions to the recall of thousands of soups for lying on the label

2021-10-07T12:59:32.264Z


After the announcement that almost 130,000 instant ramen soups were being recalled, the memes and jokes on social networks did not wait.


Mexicans reacted with a dose of disbelief and humor to Monday's announcement of the recall of nearly 130,000 instant soups from nine different brands after authorities discovered they were lying on their labels.

The Federal Consumer Prosecutor's Office (Profeco) carried out a quality study in which it determined that the companies that make this popular product were not declaring the actual nutritional information, as published in the October issue of the Consumer Magazine.

The head of Profeco, Ricardo Sheffield Padilla, was slyly expressed about the statement made by products that contain cheese, chicken, beef or other ingredients:

"By kissing a chicken you get more chicken than with those soups," he

said. the official.

Ricardo Sheffield, head of Profeco, at the morning press conference at the National Palace, on October 4, 2021.

While many people on social media understood the announcement as a widespread recall of these instant ramen brands for being unhealthy, Sheffield Padilla emphatically clarified that the government was not recalling the products for their lack of nutritional value, but for their deceptive practices to when informing the public about the content of your products.

The attorney explained, for example, that one of the recalled soups is

Buldak Cheese,

because the label is in Chinese and English, instead of Spanish

, and "it says it has cheese and chicken but it has no cheese and no chicken." .

Another of the recalled products was the ramen-type soup of the popular brand Maruchan, because the label states that it contains vegetables,

but the vegetables it contains "fit on the tip of the nail,"

said the official.

The only recalled Mexican soup brand is a Knorr brand product "where calories are misstated and they want to hide the caloric value which is quite high," Sheffield Padilla said.

"These soups are so attractive because they have a lot of salt, they have a lot of sugar, they taste good, but it's not that good for you

,

" he

added.

Sheffield Padilla also reminded consumers that the labeling of Maruchan soups that continue to be sold in the market warns "in microscopic letters that it should not be put into the microwave", since if it is done "chemicals are transferred to the soup that are harmful to health".

"Tomorrow I will strike": this is how they reacted on social networks

Although the official denied that the Government had banned these products and explained that they were only withdrawn for not complying with the labeling regulations,

the jokes about it on social networks were immediate.

The satirical portal of fictitious notes Deforma joked that the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador had launched its own brand of instant noodles called 'Sopa del Bienestar'.

Meanwhile, many users on Twitter shared memes about the decision of the authorities and the alleged panic purchases that were being unleashed.

Mexico is a country with 126 million inhabitants,

where some 62 million adults and 12 million children and adolescents live with overweight or obesity

.

To combat this public health problem, the authorities established a consumer information system last year with a black front label that warns when food has excess fat or calories to prevent excessive consumption.

With information from EFE.

Source: telemundo

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