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    Shanxi fake salt case in the first instance verdict: the defendant paid 10 times the compensation and publicly apologized

    • Last Update: 2020-12-09
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Recently, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, Yingze District People's Court open trial of 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.
    The first trial sentenced the four defendants to one year, 10 months to two years and two months' imprisonment and a fine; suspended sentences were pronounced in accordance with the law and a prohibition order was applied (prohibiting the defendants from engaging in food production, sales and related activities during the probation period); and the four defendants were ordered to jointly pay 10 times the amount of compensation for the sale and publicly apologize in the Taiyuan city media.
    The court heard that from March to September 2019, the defendant and the defendant in the incidental civil public interest litigation Gao and four others, without any license, will be refined industrial salt direct filling, counterfeit Shanxi salt brand deep well seaweed iodized salt and for sale in Taiyuan city, has been verified, a total of 14 merchants to buy counterfeit Shanxi salt industry brand deep well seaweed iodized salt, recovery of 0.9 tons of counterfeit 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 is generally an area of iodine deficiency, in addition to some high iodine administrative villages, Taiyuan City should be supplied with iodized salt in line with Shanxi Province's edible salt iodine content standards (18 mg/kg to 33 mg/kg).
    selling non-iodized salt or unqualified iodized salt in areas other than the high-iodine administrative village in Taiyuan City has been consumed by the local people for a long time enough to cause food-causing diseases.
    Iodine deficiency diseases include endemorphic goiter, kertin disease (with dementia, dwarfism, deafness, muteness, paralysis as the main clinical characteristics) and cytotin disease (with mental retardation as the main clinical characteristics), simple deafness, fetal abortion, premature birth and congenital malformations.
    The court heard that the defendant Gao and four other people violated 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 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.
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