The Haagen-Dazs Zhenhua store would be fined 50,000 yuan (US$6,046) for failing to meet hygiene standards, the Luohu hygiene supervision office said.

Shenzhen's quality watchdog raided 109 supermarkets, department stores, bakeries and restaurants Saturday, and found no scandal-tainted Haagen-Dazs ice-cream cakes, the watchdog said Wednesday.

All five Haagen-Dazs outlets had removed cakes from their shelves, the watchdog said.

Problems with Haagen-Dazs cakes were exposed last Thursday, when health and quality authorities found the Haagen-Dazs store in Zhenhua Building in Luohu District making ice-cream cakes in a makeshift kitchen with no food safety license.

The quality watchdog said it had inspected all Haagen-Dazs products at supermarkets and other ice-cream makers in the city after the scandal was exposed. No other processing sites of Haagen-Dazs ice-cream cakes were found, and no such cakes were sold at supermarkets.

Then in following raids to the ice-cream giant's five Shenzhen stores, the King Glory store and Diwang store were found selling cakes without permission.

Food supervision authorities had asked the stores to stop selling cakes and destroy 22 kilograms of cakes for sale.

The Haagen-Dazs ice creams sold at supermarkets were all imported, according to the municipal quality watchdog.

Cheng Xueyuan, vice head of the city's quality watchdog, said the watchdog had begun to inspect all the bakeries with independent processing rooms and distributing channels in the city to suppress any unlicensed food makers.

(Shenzhen Daily June 23, 2005)