A young man in Changsha City escaped after deliberately promoting expired products in a shopping mall. The store: Alert has been resolved. Xie Nv, a store owner at the shopping mall, said that the man behaved strangely and was suspected of being committed by a criminal gang. He had appeared in several stores. After the abnormality occurred, the man quickly escaped. Ms. Xie stated that she discovered that a sausage dated October 26, 2021 was thrown into the store, and the alarm was issued.
Our country attaches great importance to food hygiene and safety, and the administrative penalty laws for harmful and hazardous foods are very severe. Normally, if you find unsafe food in a store or shopping mall, you can report it to the market supervision and management agency in the name of patent rights protection, and the market agency will punish you, and will also provide financial rewards to the reporter. At the same time, according to the requirements of the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, in addition to stipulating compensation for losses when purchasing expired goods, consumers can also stipulate compensation of 10 times the project price or 3 times the damage; increase the amount of compensation. If it’s not enough, it’s 1,000 yuan. In other words, customers who purchase expired goods can receive at least 1,000 yuan in compensation.
Consequently, customers can also purchase expired products and immediately lodge a claim with the store or file a lawsuit for compensation in the name of violating food hygiene and safety. The amount ranges from three for every fake product to ten compensation for every fake product. If the seller has direct evidence (supplier, product batch number, account statement, etc.) to prove that the expired goods held by the customer are not owned by him, then the man's methods are suspected of fraud or extortion, and the store can ask the police to intervene and hold him accountable. Criminal offenses against the man and the criminal gang behind him.
Solutions for shopping malls and supermarkets: Install monitoring in shopping malls without blind spots; daily supply suppliers, accounts, and product production batch numbers must be kept for direct evidence filing; strengthen employees' learning and training on laws and regulations and anti-counterfeiting and rights protection , stay vigilant, and staff in important positions should pay special attention; if there are any problematic foods, they must be taken off the production line immediately and destroyed; when it comes to professional anti-counterfeiting claims or reports, you must not be noncommittal, and you must make clear investigations before speaking, because professional anti-counterfeiting is mostly the crowd , have committed crimes many times, shopping malls and supermarkets should break away from the fortress, establish relevant information groups, regularly communicate with each other about this type of anti-counterfeiting and rights protection information, restrict each other, and remind each other.