Seoul restaurant fined for serving ants as food garnish

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A restaurant in Seoul has been fined for using ants as a garnish on its desserts.
The owner of Evevett Restaurant was fined 15 million won (about Rs 10.5 lakh) and the company running the restaurant was fined 10 million won for violating South Korea's Food Sanitation Act.
Ants are not on South Korea's list of 10 insects approved for use as food, which includes grasshoppers and certain silkworm species.
South Korea's Food and Drug Safety Ministry found the restaurant had sprinkled three to five ants on dishes to add a sour taste over about four years, with an estimated total of nearly 49,000 ants, mostly imported from the United States and Thailand.
Testing of the ants showed heavy metals above permitted standards, which matters because it means the violation involved a real food safety risk and not just a rule breach.

Whether the ants being absent from South Korea's approved insects list leads to any change in the country's edible insect rules
Any appeal or further legal steps by the restaurant owner after the fine
Whether other restaurants using imported insects as garnish come under similar scrutiny

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