3 jailed for forgery on imported goods
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THREE employees of a Shanghai food trade company were sentenced to three years in jail for forging 2,000 hygiene certificates on imported products by the Minhang District court.
The imported products — grapefruit tea from South Korea — were pasted with fake certificates and supplied to all the 80 branches of the Metro chain on the Chinese mainland, the Shanghai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau said yesterday.
The bureau checked the documents at Metro Jinjiang Cash & Carry Co in Shanghai last year. It said the court jailed the trio sometime in the second half of the year without giving details.
The Shanghai Youzilang Co Ltd, which claims it imports goods from South Korea on its website, supplied tea to the retail chain. Three employees from the company were arrested last year. No action was taken against the company.
Metro said yesterday it withdrew all the Youzilang products from its stores across the country in August last year after it was notified by the authorities that Youzilang was facing criminal action.
It claimed no grapefruit tea was sold after it withdrew them.
Hygiene certificates and related documents are issued by China’s entry-exit inspection and quarantine authorities and is a prerequisite for imported food before they are sold on the mainland.
Food operators are required to check the certificates when they purchase the imported goods and must also make a record of it.
Some of the products with fake certificates found at Metro were easy to detect as the issuing date was earlier than the production date and the weight of the same batch of products on a single certificate was different.
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