Four people in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, were sentenced for selling industrial salt as counterfeit iodized salt

Xinhua Taiyuan, June 5, reporters from Shanxi Province High People's Court was informed that Taiyuan City Yingze District People's Court recently held a public hearing on the defendant Gao and other 4 people to produce and sell food that does not meet the safety standards of the criminal incidental civil public interest litigation case.
Gao and other 4 people will be refined industrial salt directly filled into Shanxi salt industry brand deep well seaweed iodized salt and for sale in Taiyuan city, currently recovered 0.9 tons, there are still 16 tons of counterfeit iodized salt into the market.
Taiyuan City Yingze District People's Court trial found that from March to September 2019, the defendant and the defendant with civil public interest litigation Gao, and other 4 people without any license, the refined industrial salt directly filled into a Fake Shanxi salt brand Deep well seaweed iodized salt and for sale in Taiyuan city, has been verified offline purchase of counterfeit Shanxi salt industry brand deep well seaweed iodized salt merchants have 14, recovered 0.9 tons, there are still 16 tons of counterfeit iodized salt into the market.
inspection by the National Salt Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, the counterfeit deep-well seaweed iodized salt sodium chloride, potassium iron cyanide, iodine project does not meet the standard requirements, the test conclusion is not qualified.
A letter issued by the Shanxi Provincial Health and Health Commission shows that Taiyuan City as a whole belongs to the area of iodine deficiency, except for some high iodine administrative villages, Taiyuan City should supply iodized salt in accordance with Shanxi Province's edible salt iodine content standards (18 mg/kg-33 mg/kg); Long-term consumption of salt by the local population is sufficient to cause food-based diseases, iodine deficiency diseases include endemorphic goiter, kertin disease (with dementia, dwarfing, deafness, mute, paralysis as the main clinical characteristics) and arktin disease (with mental retardation as the main clinical characteristics), simple deafness, fetal abortion, premature birth and congenital malformation.
Taiyuan City Yingze District People's Court heard that the defendant Gao and other 4 people in violation of the relevant provisions of the State on the production and sale of iodized edible salt, for the purpose of illegal profit, the industrial salt filling in iodized edible salt packaging bags for sale, its behavior endangers the market economic management order and causes food safety hazards, constitute the production and sale of food that does not meet safety standards.
the facts and charges of the crime alleged by the Public Prosecution Service.
Regarding the incidental civil public interest litigation part, the public interest litigation defendant Gao and other 4 people produce and sell food that does not meet the safety standards, resulting in a large number of salt products that do not meet the safety standards into the market, its behavior infringes the legitimate rights and interests of many non-specific consumers, resulting in food safety hazards and adverse social impact, has damaged the public interest, according to law should bear civil liability.
public interest litigation plaintiffs require the defendants in the municipal media to apologize to the public and bear the sales amount of ten times the amount of compensation claims, in accordance with the law, should be supported.
fourth defendant truthfully confessed the facts of the case, voluntarily confessed guilt and punishment, and voluntarily paid compensation for incidental civil public interest litigation, which may be leniently punished.
The Yingze District People's Court sentenced four defendants to one year, ten months to two years and two months' imprisonment, and imposed a suspended sentence in accordance with the law, and applied a prohibition order (prohibiting the defendant from engaging in food production, sales and related activities during the probation period);
sentencing, the defendants all pleaded guilty.
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