Ton of chemical substances and other raw materials for making counterfeit coffee were found and confiscated yesterday, after the police made a raid on a coffee production house names coffee mekong located in Sen Sok district, Phnom Penh.
All these counterfeit coffees are made from corn and bean with the chemical substances. The owner is Vietnamese.

So Do you guys ever drink all these coffee brands below?

And what is even more scary is we could be drinking fake brands of beer.

Updated from Phnom Penh Post

Four arrested in raid targeting fake coffee

Police have warned coffee lovers there could be a couple of bad batches circulating and percolating in Phnom Penh after a raid on a fake coffee enterprise in Sen Sok district’s Khmuonh commune yesterday.
Officers arrested four men during the joint operation in Banlar Sa Et village and also seized 30 tonnes of raw materials used to manufacture the potentially toxic brew.
“The coffee was made of overcooked soybean and corn and then mixed with chemical substances in order to get the odor to smell like real coffee,” said operation leader General Long Sreng. “A small amount of coffee was then grinded and added with those things before it was packed,” he added.
General Sreng, deputy director of the Ministry of Interior’s anti-economic crime department, said experts traced the suspicious mix to a handicraft factory opened six years ago.
According to a patent connected with the site – lodged with the Sen Sok district tax authorities last year – the fake coffee was sold under brands including MeKong, Nam Nguyen, Tay Nguyen and Laos.
During the raid, conducted together with the Phnom Penh municipal deputy prosecutor, Phnom Penh municipal checkpoint officials and local authorities, officers arrested 42-year-old dual Vietnamese-Cambodian citizen Seang Dara, the alleged owner, and three Vietnamese workers.
They also seized raw materials totaling 34.9 tonnes, including 17 kinds of chemicals allegedly used in the process.
Dr Ly Cheng Huy, managing director of Cambodia Health website, said the coffee’s toxicity would depend on the exact chemical mix, though he suggested that it could be potentially carcinogenic.
“It depends on the chemicals they use, the amount of flour and what they insert for smell and taste,” he said.
Police trumpeted the raid as their first big fake coffee bust of 2015, although it’s unclear how many similar operations they’ve shut down.
In 2012, according to Vietnam’s Thanh Nien news, Vietnamese police shut down a fake coffee operation in Ho Chi Minh that was combining soybeans, corn, chemicals used in dishwashing soap and industrial colour powders to brew their counterfeit java.

Duncan wrote:And what is even more scary is we could be drinking fake brands of beer.

Yes also fake wine. I have no problem with those. I don't drink much beer, wine and coffee.

I actually like the stuff, I've tried several. One claimed 25% ACTUAL coffee I mix it with some real coffee. I mean hell, the stuff costs half the price of real coffee, kind of a tip off no? It's everywhere, them cops are gonna be busy.

It sucks.

Mr Curious wrote:I actually like the stuff, I've tried several. One claimed 25% ACTUAL coffee I mix it with some real coffee. I mean hell, the stuff costs half the price of real coffee, kind of a tip off no? It's everywhere, them cops are gonna be busy.

Where's the margin then ? I pay about $3 /kilo for really good Cambodian coffee. It's Robusto not Arabica, but it rocks.

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This has been going on for at least five years.

http://m.thanhniennews.com/society/coff ... -5604.html

It has been a rumor for a few years too in Cambodia. However, since there was no evidence had been found or proven, people seemed to pay no attention with the Vietnamese coffee that they were drinking every day. i really want all Cambodian to boycott Vietnamese's products. Not to mention, the vegetables that are being imported to Cambodia everyday contain a lot of chemical which can slowly damage our health.
Honestly i am so afraid to discuss with you about something related to Vietnamese, as you are so sensitive about it.