Reporters learned from the official website of the Guilin Municipal Market Supervision Bureau of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region that the bureau recently investigated a case of selling disposable plastic food containers expressly prohibited by the state. The person involved was arrested for selling disposable tableware that was eliminated by the state and lunch boxes with substandard product quality. The market supervision department opened a case for investigation. Law enforcement officers seized 260 disposable foam insulated lunch boxes on site, confiscated 40.5 yuan of illegal income and fined 19,000 yuan.
According to the purchase receipts provided by the operator on site, market supervision and law enforcement officers seized a total of 54 disposable foam insulated lunch boxes of model D-1 in stock, with a purchase price of 40 yuan/piece; disposable foam plastics of model D-2 in stock There are 116 pieces of insulated lunch boxes, with a purchase price of 34 yuan/piece; there are 90 pieces of disposable foam plastic insulated lunch boxes of model D-3 in stock, with a purchase price of 33 yuan/piece. There were a total of 260 items in total, none of which were sold to the outside world. Law enforcement officers seized and enforced the items in accordance with the law.
Disposable plastic food containers not only cause serious pollution to the environment, but are not resistant to high temperatures and can easily cause harm to the human body during use, posing great safety risks. As early as 2020, the country explicitly banned its production and sales. The party's behavior of selling products that have been eliminated by the state violates Article 35 of the "Product Quality Law of the People's Republic of China" and is based on the relevant provisions of the "Administrative Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China" and Article 51 of the "Product Quality Law of the People's Republic of China" According to the regulations, the Guilin Market Supervision Bureau ordered the party concerned to stop selling disposable foam plastic tableware, confiscated 260 pieces of disposable foam plastic tableware from the party concerned, and imposed an administrative penalty of 7,000 yuan.
