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You’ve served your time, now say sorry

Shanghai prosecutors yesterday filed food and drug safety public interest suits against some defendants already sentenced in criminal proceedings.

In one case, entrepreneur Zhou began selling diet pills on Taobao with illegal ingredients in November 2015.

Sales amounted to 200,000 yuan (US$29,000). Zhou was sentenced to seven months in jail in 2016 and fined 110,000 yuan.

Prosecutors now say Zhou should apologize on mainstream national media, explain to the public why the pills are harmful and ask people to stop taking them.

In other cases, prosecutors also want public apologies.

One involves beef injected with banned additive ractopamine. Leng and Wang, were sentenced to 30 months and 18 months in jail and fined 200,000 yuan and 100,000 yuan, respectively.

Apart from apologizing to the public, prosecutors say they should pay the costs of disposal of the beef, along with punitive damages for harming the public interest.

In August, procuratorates began tackling food safety. Shanghai prosecutors have filed 66 cases since then, with 49 operations closed down.

Prosecutors have helped government bodies set up a blacklist preventing those with criminal records from working in food production industry.




 

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