Iodine content display criteria exceeded...Korea Eun-dan Recalls Some Multi-Vitamin All-In-One Products
Apr 24, 2025
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Earlier, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety asked consumers to stop taking the product and return it to the place of purchase, and asked sellers to stop selling it immediately. The recovery target is 60 1560mg products with a consumption period of February 10, 2027, and the barcode number is '8809497531729'.
Korea Eundan said "The product name to be recovered is 60 multi-vitamin all-in-one", and among the multi-vitamin all-in-one products produced on February 11, 2025, the manufacturing number '1460' marked with the last 4 digits after the barcode number (8809497531729) on the bottom of the case and the expiration date is until February 10, 2027. Barcode numbers are unique to the product itself and are all the same, so be sure to check the last 4 digits manufacturing number, not the barcode," he said.
Korea Eundan confirmed that 2,553 units of the product were sold online and stopped selling the lot product altogether. Consumers who have already purchased the product are individually sent a notice text, and at the same time, they are contacted and collected sequentially.
According to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, the product was marked with an iodine content of 60μg, but 129.6μg was detected as a result of the actual measurement. This amounts to 216% of the allowable display range (80-150% of the display amount). Iodine, an essential mineral important for thyroid hormone synthesis, needs to be careful because excessive intake can cause side effects such as thyroid dysfunction.
Korea Eundan said that the iodine content of the product to be collected was 129.7μg (86% of the Food and Drug Administration's recommended daily intake), which is less than 150μg, which is not enough to cause harm to consumer health, but the recovery was decided as the test results exceeded 60μg (40% of the Food and Drug Administration's recommended daily intake). He added that the upper daily intake of iodine was 2400μg (1600%).
Korea Eundan said that the iodine content of 'multivitamin all-in-one' currently on sale is contained in accordance with the labeling standards, as the quality inspection of 'multivitamin all-in-one' is conducted every time it is produced and all 23 vitamins and minerals are checked through regular verification by accredited organizations.
"The amount detected is within the daily intake recommended by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, but due to the difference between the labeling standard and the actual content, we have started a full-scale sale suspension and recovery measures," said an official from Korea University Healthcare. "Since some products are responsible for not closely checking the labeling standard and actual content, we will deeply recognize this issue and thoroughly inspect the product quality management system in the future to prevent similar cases from happening again."."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
