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These included powdered drink mixes, instant seasonings, coffee, soft drinks and
flour.

"Food products with damaged packaging were mostly found in South Sulawesi, West
Papua, West Nusa Tenggara, Aceh, South Kalimantan, Bengkulu, West Sulawesi,
North Sumatra and Bangka Belitung. They included instant coffee, candy, sweetened
condensed milk, soft drinks and flour," Penny said

BPOM has ordered stores to remove unsafe foods and drinks from their premises and
stop stocking them again.

"We could mete out punishment to the stores that refuse to comply, starting from
administrative sanctions to legal charges," Penny said.

This year BPOM surveyed around 2,600 stores, and around 1,152 or 43 percent of
them were found to have sold unsafe and illegal products.