A few days ago, the Dongxihu Industrial and Commercial Department received a report from a food company in Suzhou: Starting from May, the sales of the company's product "Thousand-page Tofu" in Hunan and Hubei have dropped severely. After investigation, it was found that there are many dealers selling the company's "Thousand-page Tofu" in places such as Huangshi, Jingzhou, and Yichang in Hubei, as well as Yueyang and Changde in Hunan. The outer packaging of the products is exactly the same, making it difficult to distinguish. At the same time, insulated trucks from Wuhan often deliver goods to these places, and the place of purchase is the "Linhai Business Department" of Baishazhou Market in Wuhan.
In the investigation, industrial and commercial personnel discovered that there is a factory in a yard beside Zhanggong Embankment in Hankou that specializes in producing "thousand-page tofu". The factory has started production in April. The three security doors in the factory are kept tightly closed every day and do not operate during the day. All curtains are still covered at night. Only the sound of factory machines running can be heard, and occasionally people in white coats can be seen entering from the side door.
Afterwards, the reporter reported that there was a similar workshop in a house in Sanjintan Village, Houhu Township, Hankou. What surprised the industrial and commercial personnel was that in addition to the factory name, address, health license number, etc. being consistent with the company's products, the counterfeit products also had laser anti-counterfeiting marks unique to the authentic products on the outer packaging bags. "The value of this laser plate-making machine is about 8 million yuan, which shows that the printing factory that provides packaging bags is quite large." Yang Shuaifeng, a staff member of the Suzhou factory, said.
After receiving the report, the Dongxihu Industrial and Commercial Department investigated and dealt with the tofu production factory near Zhanggongdi at night. When law enforcement officers arrived, four workers on site were processing "thousand-sheet tofu". A worker surnamed Zhou explained that soybean protein isolate, soybean oil, modified starch, salt, and MSG were mixed in a certain proportion on site, stirred with a blender, then added ice cubes and pigments to continue stirring, put them into a mold box and put them in a steam cabinet Steamed and finally sealed and packaged.
Industrial and commercial personnel found at the scene 47 packages of soy protein isolate used for the production of tofu, 16 barrels of 20 kilograms of heavy soybean oil, 25 kilograms of modified starch for food, a total of 9 packages, and the outer packaging was marked "white pigment" 7 barrels of 500g food additives, as well as fully automatic vacuum packaging machines, sealing machines, etc.
According to investigation by industrial and commercial personnel, the owner of the tofu factory, Zou, lives in Sanjintan Village, Houhu Township, Hankou. The counterfeit "Qianye Tofu" he produces is sold to other places through Baishazhou Market. Apply for business licenses and health permits, etc.
Zou admitted that he had nothing to do with a food company in Suzhou. Because the health license was not obtained, he used other people's packaging for production and sales. "The packaging is done by contacting the phone number according to the advertisement in the newspaper, then transferring the money to the other party's account, and the other party sends the packaging through logistics."
For suspected production and sales of goods that infringe the exclusive rights of others' registered trademarks, the industrial and commercial personnel Detain relevant items.