How to prevent food poisoning at highway rest areas on the way to your hometown for Chuseok?
Sep 18, 2025
When traveling long distances on holidays, food and beverage are often consumed or purchased at rest areas.
Ahead of Chuseok, Oh Yoo-kyung, head of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, visited the Nongong Expressway Rest Area (Gwangju, located in Dalseong-gun, Daegu) to guide the correct way to purchase and store food and ask for compliance with food poisoning prevention rules.
Director Oh Yoo-kyung met with visitors to the rest area on the same day and said, "In autumn, morning and evening are chilly, but the temperature rises during the day, so you should eat food quickly instead of keeping it at room temperature for a long time on the way home and the grave."," he stressed.
According to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, when purchasing food at a rest area, it is recommended to use a sanitary-grade restaurant that is recognized as having excellent hygiene conditions or to purchase products from HACCP-certified food manufacturing and processing businesses (such as lunch box manufacturers).
In particular, it is desirable to eat food purchased at a rest area as soon as possible because the temperature inside the car can rise and bacteria such as food poisoning bacteria can rapidly proliferate. If it is unavoidable to store for a long time, store it with a cooling bag, ice bag, etc. as much as possible, and must be reheated before consumption.
For reference, holiday foods are cooked in large quantities unlike usual, so food poisoning can be prevented only when purchasing ingredients, carefully preparing, storing, and actively practicing food poisoning prevention rules.
On this day, Director Oh Yoo-kyung examined the site of automatically cooking and providing food with four cooking robots certified as the 「Food Device Safety Management Standard」 at the food court at the rest area and listened to the opinions of the site to activate the 「Food Device Safety Management Certification System」.
Director-General Oh Yoo-kyung said, "As hygiene and safety of cooking tools as well as food ingredients are very important, I would like to thank the highway rest area officials who preemptively introduced certified cooking robots under the 'Safety Management Standards for Food Equipment'."Please make every effort to manage the safety of food and beverages in the rest area so that the people can visit their hometown safely and healthily."
Ahead of Chuseok, Oh Yoo-kyung, head of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, visited the Nongong Expressway Rest Area (Gwangju, located in Dalseong-gun, Daegu) to guide the correct way to purchase and store food and ask for compliance with food poisoning prevention rules.
Director Oh Yoo-kyung met with visitors to the rest area on the same day and said, "In autumn, morning and evening are chilly, but the temperature rises during the day, so you should eat food quickly instead of keeping it at room temperature for a long time on the way home and the grave."," he stressed.
According to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, when purchasing food at a rest area, it is recommended to use a sanitary-grade restaurant that is recognized as having excellent hygiene conditions or to purchase products from HACCP-certified food manufacturing and processing businesses (such as lunch box manufacturers).
In particular, it is desirable to eat food purchased at a rest area as soon as possible because the temperature inside the car can rise and bacteria such as food poisoning bacteria can rapidly proliferate. If it is unavoidable to store for a long time, store it with a cooling bag, ice bag, etc. as much as possible, and must be reheated before consumption.
For reference, holiday foods are cooked in large quantities unlike usual, so food poisoning can be prevented only when purchasing ingredients, carefully preparing, storing, and actively practicing food poisoning prevention rules.
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Director-General Oh Yoo-kyung said, "As hygiene and safety of cooking tools as well as food ingredients are very important, I would like to thank the highway rest area officials who preemptively introduced certified cooking robots under the 'Safety Management Standards for Food Equipment'."Please make every effort to manage the safety of food and beverages in the rest area so that the people can visit their hometown safely and healthily."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
