Huge amounts of Taipan mooncakes are at risk of being destroyed after retailers across the mainland took them off the shelves and returned them to distributors.

This came after Taipan founder's son, Garic Kwok, was spotted supporting the protest movement in Hong Kong on social media. Major online shopping platforms in China have stopped selling mooncakes from the Hong Kong brand.

The agency for Taipan mooncakes in the mainland said the company had received massive amounts of mooncakes that were returned from retailers, and there is no way to transport them to Hong Kong, mainland media reports.

The only solution would be to destroy them, said Wu Haotian, the person in charge.

Wu said the agency is negotiating with its partners in the mainland and trying to figure out a way to reduce the loss the company would incur. He said the agency will also talk to Taipan in Hong Kong.

The agency has issued a statement to say that it is a Guangzhou enterprise and that all its employees are mainlanders.

It added that Kwok's support for protesters doesn't represent its stance. The Standard did not receive a reply from Taipan in response to queries.

Over the weekend, the online store for Taipan snowy mooncakes was taken down on Alibaba's Tmall.

Its products also couldn't be found on China's two biggest e-commerce platforms - JD.com and Alibaba's Taobao.

Kwok shared a link of a news report from an anti-Beijing media organization on August 24, a day after about 210,000 people formed a human chain by holding hands to create the "Hong Kong Way."

Kwok later posted an apology, saying anything he shared on his page was personal and had nothing to do with Taipan Bread & Cakes.

"If some words or information caused misunderstanding or offended any one, I apologize," he wrote.

Taipan issued a statement on Friday, saying what Kwok wrote and shared on his Facebook page does not represent the company's stance.