One TikToker who went viral for selling unapproved pink sauce to her followers is finally here to speak about how people are calling her out and calling on the FDA to chase after her. According to her, she isn’t selling medical products to be approved by the FDA so you all you shut the f** up.
She has been identified as Chef Pii, and she’s all over the internet over her pink sauce via Daily Dot;
A TikToker named Chef Pii, who has been selling and marketing a condiment she calls “Pink Sauce” over the past two months, is under fire after users pointed out the inconsistency of the sauce coloring across different bottles, errors on her product’s nutritional label, as well as expressed safety concerns over its perishability and shipping.
Chef Pii (@chef.pii), who also calls herself the “Pink Sauce Lady,” now has over 80,000 followers across TikTok and Instagram. It appears Chef Pii first posted about Pink Sauce back in June, and has since been marketing the product non-stop on TikTok and Instagram, attracting millions of views. In one of her first videos about the sauce, she says she came up with the idea for an “off-the-wall” colorful sauce using natural ingredients, like dragon fruit, a little over a year ago.
In her first videos about Pink Sauce, its bottles did not feature a nutritional label. When comments came in regarding the food’s safety, Chef Pii responded saying she has been a professional chef for over four years, is in the process of “quality testing” her product, and would eventually provide a nutritional label before shipping the sauce out.
Controversy further took off in June when the TikToker posted a video, which attracted over 5 million views, of herself pouring a large jug of oil into a blender and funneling the pink sauce into containers in her home kitchen, sparking debate in its comments section about the safety of the seemingly homemade product being ordered and shipped across the country.
A few days after Chef Pii went viral, she began to sell the pink sauce via her online store. In a June video, Pii said her pre-sale for the first 100 orders of the product sold out. On July 1, the product went on sale again for its “official launch.” Chef Pii told Passionfruit on a phone call that she does not make her final product out of her home kitchen, and instead works in a commercial kitchen facility. She also said she possesses food and safety certifications but did not disclose which certifications she has specifically.
Pii told Passionfruit she is working hard to resolve some of the shipment issues reported by customers. She explained the packages were “smushed” in transit, and she is now changing her packaging and will no longer use the United States Postal Service as a carrier due to the shipment issues.
“I guess when you’re great, you can’t make a mistake, but, I mean, yeah. My team is working quickly to fix the issues,” Pii said. “We had some delays with getting into our facility and stuff like that. We had shipment issues. However, we’re working rapidly to fix all the problems. [We’re working on] reaching back out to our customers who actually purchased the product and communicating with them diligently.”
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