Nghe An destroyed nearly 3 tons of counterfeit and poor quality goods.

The Council for Destruction of Administrative Violations approves the process and procedures before proceeding to destroy the violating goods. Photo: Tien Dong

Quantitydestroyed goodsThis time, there were 11,057 products, weighing nearly 3 tons and worth nearly 400 million VND. Among them, there were 1,000 unlabeled shampoo and conditioner products; 560 bottles of modern medicine of unknown origin; hundreds of electrical and electronic devices of poor quality, and thousands of fake clothing and shirts of famous brands...

Electronic and electrical items will have their original shape destroyed. Photo: Tien Dong

These are the exhibits, means, and goods violating administrative regulations that units of Nghe An Market Management Department seized during the process of inspection, control, and fight against counterfeit goods, fake goods, poor quality goods, and goods of unknown origin in the last 6 months of the year. In addition to destroying the goods, the Market Management Department also imposed hundreds of millions of VND in fines on the owners of the goods in the violations.

The destruction of goods was witnessed by agencies, departments, sectors and media units. Photo: Tien Dong

Mr. Vo Quang Lan - Deputy Director, Nghe An Province Market Management Department said: Recently, the Market Management Department has inspected and handled many counterfeit products, banned goods, poor quality goods, goods of unknown origin such as cosmetics, modern medicines, functional foods, electronic devices, smuggled children's toys, food products, candies, clothes, counterfeit famous brands...

For clothes that violate labels or counterfeit brands, they will be cut into small pieces, ensuring that the goods are not left intact. Photo: Tien Dong

All infringing goods are destroyed in accordance with procedures and regulations, ensuring safety and environmental hygiene on the basis of destroying the original shape for electrical and electronic items... As for clothes, they will be cut into small pieces, ensuring that the goods are not intact. During the destruction of goods, there is supervision by competent authorities and newspapers and radio stations report and record images; the products after destruction are no longer of any use.

According to regulations, the destruction will be carried out under the witness of the Council for Destruction of Administrative Violations. The destruction of goods is also subject to open bidding, and the winning bidder must also be granted a license by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to be qualified to destroy hazardous waste.