SHANGHAI
- Food and drug safety-related crimes
will be given severe punishment in Shanghai, according to the Shanghai High
People's Court.
The
court pronounced judgment on eight food and drug cases on Thursday in which 18
defendants received sentences from six months to six-and-a-half years in
prison, and were fined 1,000 to 800,000 yuan (S$200 to 160,755).
They
were found guilty on six charges, including selling counterfeit drugs, selling
false products, illegal operation, using fake trademarks, selling products with
fake trademarks, and selling illegally made trademarks, according to the court.
"The
cases are involved with counterfeit protein powder, salt, white spirits,
imported spirits, tobacco and Viagra, all of which are very close to people's
daily lives. They brought great harm to people's lives," said Ding
Shouxing, deputy director of Shanghai High People's Court.
The
Internet has become an important setting for crimes as defendants in half of
these eight cases sold their products online, Ding said.
In one
case, defendant Chen Youzhi opened an online store at Taobao selling
counterfeit Amway healthcare products.
From
January 2007 to November 2011, he sold 6.06 million yuan worth of products
online.
On May
3, Chen was sentenced to six-and-a-half years imprisonment and fined 800,000
yuan.
"As
e-commerce flourishes in the country, many sellers have begun to expand
business online. In this regard, there is urgent need for related departments
to strengthen the supervision of online trading," said Zhu Dan, another
official from Shanghai High People's Court.
"These
cases reflect a low moral state and lack of legal awareness of defendants, and
it also exposes the holes in food and drug safety supervision and management by
government departments," said Ding Shouxing, deputy director of the court.
"Those
departments should enhance and improve their social management while those
online trading platforms should also regularly verify the quality of business
operators on the platform," he said.
"Shanghai
courts pay a lot of attention to food and drug-related crimes, and will give severe
punishments in these cases," Ding noted.
Though
the city has been working hard to ensure food safety in recent years, it still
faces some tough challenges, such as the low-level standardization of the food
industry, lack of honesty in enterprises and the low quality of working staff
as well as the absence of related food safety rules and regulations.
"Now
the city is carrying out a bold exploration of the food safety risk and trying
to establish a comprehensive food-safety risk monitoring and assessment system
during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) period," Yan Zuqiang, the
director of Shanghai Food Safety Office, said in an online interview at
eastday.com.
"A
complete food safety monitoring network will be set up that will cover the
whole food chain and can trace food from the field to the table," he said.
Wang
Hongyi
China
Daily/Asia News Network
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