JD.com Food Sold on Platform Notification: What to Do About Aflatoxin-Exceeding Peanut Butter
If I bought a fake product from an online store, whether it's a phone or clothes, should I seek redress from the manufacturer or the producer? Generally I seek compensation from the online store, and as for the online store's losses, whether they go after the manufacturer is none of my concern, because the online store is the one directly trading with me and also the one 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, Carrefour, Walmart and Beijing Hualian and other supermarkets. Among the products, peanut butter and ham products were substandard. Among them, the peanut butter sold on JD.com by JD China Specialty · Hebei Supply and Marketing Cooperative Hall had aflatoxin B1 that did not meet the national food safety standard. It is reported that aflatoxin B1 is one of the most carcinogenic known chemical substances, with strong toxicity to humans and several animals. O The State Administration for Market Regulation issued a notice that peanut butter and other foods sold on JD.com were substandard.
Netizens have said: they should also publish which quality supervision bureau approved it for market sale! Who signed the food certificate of conformity, that's the key, severely punish both the enterprise and the director of the food supervision bureau together, dismiss them, remove them from their posts! Only then can China's food safety be trusted! I really want to curse these food quality supervision bureaus, they're no different from unscrupulous enterprises.
It was clearly the peanut butter from the Hebei Supply and Marketing Cooperative Hall that exceeded aflatoxin limits, yet they listed a bunch of supermarket names. Isn't the primary responsibility that of the producer? The supermarket only bears secondary responsibility.
This is not a matter of seeking redress for selling counterfeit and inferior food, but a food safety issue. In many comments, so many people actually think that not criticizing the distributor means being brainless? The distributor is not a regulatory body, so should they test every product marked as conforming themselves? So whose fault is it really?