The most distressing thing for our mothers recently is that our well-known brands, both Abbott and Beingmate, are involved in 17,000 fake milk powders. Many mothers have said that regardless of whether they are real or not, they will never buy these products again. Two companies, so let’s take a look at the facts about counterfeit milk powder.
What are the brands of counterfeit milk powder? Beingmate milk powder has also been counterfeited
Yesterday, the official website of the Food and Drug Administration issued the "Food and Drug Administration Spokesperson Talks Again about the Counterfeit Milk Powder Case." It was revealed that in addition to the previous Abbott case, the counterfeit milk powder case also involved "Beinmate ".
According to the announcement, in response to the case of counterfeit "Abbott" and "Beinmate" brand infant milk powder detected by the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, the spokesperson of the Food and Drug Administration stated that the case was caused by criminals purchasing cheap A case involving milk powder and milk powder with deformed packaging being processed into canned and counterfeit milk powder.
The spokesperson emphasized that the General Administration notified on April 4 that the products involved in the case were inspected by the case-handling agency and met food safety standards, but were counterfeit foods. The main purpose was to remind consumers not to panic if they buy and eat the counterfeit products. . However, the production and sale of counterfeit infant milk powder is an illegal and criminal act of commercial fraud and intellectual property infringement. Once discovered, regardless of whether the quality is up to standard or whether it poses a threat to public health, the milk powder involved must be immediately seized and destroyed.
The announcement stated that the Food Safety Office of the State Council has urged Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei and other places where the counterfeit products flow to further trace the products involved, and severely punish the illegal and criminal activities of producing and selling counterfeit infant milk powder in accordance with the law.
Beingmate said that no suspected products were found in the investigation
Yesterday evening, Beingmate issued a statement saying that after receiving the above information, the company immediately conducted investigations on all channels and terminals and found no relevant suspected products. .
Beingmate announced that the company has recently received notifications from the Food and Drug Administration and the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration. The Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau has verified that criminals are counterfeiting Beingmate’s 1000g Gold Love product (the production factory is in Hangzhou Beingmate Maternal and Infant Nutrition Products Co., Ltd.), the illegal behavior occurred before April 2015.
Beingmate stated that after receiving the notification, the company immediately conducted investigations on all channels and terminals, and found no relevant suspected products, and the customer service system did not receive any obvious abnormal information. The company will actively cooperate with government regulatory authorities and public security agencies to further strengthen inspections. Beingmate also reminds consumers to purchase Beingmate products from formal channels.
Can consumers not panic? Consumer panic
As to why the General Administration reported that the counterfeit milk powder is still qualified, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that it was mainly to remind consumers not to panic if they buy and consume the counterfeit product.
However, many consumers said yesterday that the State Administration's statement made people more panic. "Are there any counterfeit Abbott products on the market now? What my baby is eating is Abbott," netizen "You" asked particularly worriedly.
Consumer Ms. Wang said that although the Abbott and Beingmate brands are trustworthy, she would definitely not consider buying these two products. “Who knows if I will buy fake ones.”
Beingmate involved
Beingmate said that after receiving the news, the company immediately conducted investigations on all channels and terminals and found no relevant suspected products; the customer service system also did not receive any obvious abnormal information. The company will actively cooperate with government regulatory authorities and public security agencies to further strengthen inspections, and recommends consumers to "purchase Beingmate products from formal channels."
A person in charge of Beingmate told the Beijing News reporter that the company only knew the news on the day of the announcement. "It is understood that they are all counterfeit products and have been detained," but he said he did not know about other situations.