The supervisory teams of the Ministry of Commerce, in cooperation with the Food and Drug Authority and the joint security campaigns, were able to seize more than 498,000 stickers and machines for imitating trademarks, printing, packaging, repacking and falsifying dates in a rest house outside the city of Riyadh, used by violating labor to collect frozen chicken of unknown origin, defrost it and distribute it in dishes. It is marketed as fresh chicken.
The ministry received a report through its account on the Twitter platform, and the communication was initiated within two hours, and the site was checked, as the oversight teams inside it found empty frozen chicken cartons, machines used for re-packaging, forging production dates, and stickers for counterfeit trademarks, and the violating site was closed and the regular procedures were completed.
The Ministry of Commerce affirms that it will continue to confront violators of the anti-commercial fraud system and complete the application of legal procedures against them, given the consequences of these violations in terms of fraud and deception of consumers, as the system stipulates penalties of up to three years in prison, fines of up to one million riyals or both, and defamation. violators, and deport the violating workers, urging all consumers to report violating establishments and sites to the number 1900, or through the application of a “commercial report.”
Okaz (Jeddah)