A Beijing court upheld a food safety ruling, ordering a supermarket to refund and compensate a customer after they found restricted food additives in a meat product.
The customer, surnamed Wang, bought 17 bags beef and mutton in sauce worth 695.2 yuan(105.7 U.S. dollars) at a supermarket in Beijing on March 21, 2015, according to the Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court.
The woman sued the supermarket after she discovered caramel coloring was listed as one of the ingredients printed on the package. The food additive is not allowed to be used in production of sauced meat products in China, according to the country's standards for uses of food additives, the court said, without specifying the name of the supermarket.
The supermarket was then ordered to refund her money and pay her ten times the cost of the purchase. But the supermarket appealed after the first trial in June 2015.
The Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court upheld the original verdict, saying the sauced meat sold in the supermarket violated both the standards for uses of food additives and the Food Safety Law.
