JD.com Food Sold on Its Platform Notified: What to Do About Aflatoxin-Exceeding Peanut Butter
If I bought a counterfeit product from an online store, whether it's a phone or clothes, do I seek redress from the manufacturer or the producer? Generally I seek compensation from the online store; as for the online store's losses, whether it goes after the manufacturer is none of my concern, because the online store is the one directly trading with me and also profiting. When something goes wrong, whose fault do you think it is?
The State Administration for Market Regulation notified on the 22nd that 12 batches of food were substandard, involving JD.com Mall, Carrefour, Walmart and Beijing Hualian and other supermarkets. Among the products, peanut butter and ham were substandard. Among them, the peanut butter sold on JD.com Mall by JD China Specialty Products · Hebei Supply and Marketing Pavilion had aflatoxin B1 that did not meet the national food safety standard. It is reported that aflatoxin B1 is the most carcinogenic of known chemical substances, with strong toxicity to humans and several animals. The State Administration for Market Regulation issued a notice that peanut butter and other foods sold on JD.com were substandard.
Netizens said: they should also publicly announce which quality supervision bureau approved the marketing and sale! Whoever signed off on the food qualification certificate, that's the key; heavily penalize both the enterprise and the director of the food supervision bureau together, dismiss them, make them lose their jobs! Only then can China's food safety be assured! I really want to curse these food quality supervision bureau people, they're no different from these unscrupulous enterprises.
It's clearly the Hebei Supply and Marketing Pavilion's peanut butter that exceeded aflatoxin limits, yet a bunch of supermarket names were listed. Isn't the main responsibility that of this producer? The supermarket is only secondarily responsible.
This is not a matter of seeking redress for selling counterfeit and substandard food, but a food safety issue. In many comments, so many people actually think that not cursing the distributor is brainless? The distributor is not a regulatory authority; should it test every product marked as qualified itself? So whose fault is it really?