Herald: Shops raided for selling sanitisers, masks at high price and poor quality

18 Mar 2020 | 06:12am IST

Shops raided for selling sanitisers, masks at high price and poor quality

Team Herald

PANJIM: A day after issuing a warning against over-charging and sale of sub-standard masks and sanitisers, the Legal Metrology on Tuesday carried out a massive drive pan-Goa and seized masks, which were not adhering to the laws.

Out of 12 cases booked on a single day, the teams seized 806 ordinary masks and 195 N95 masks for not bearing mandatory declaration as required under Legal Metrology Act and Rules in force.

Maximum three cases each in Mapusa, Ponda and Curchorem were booked while Bicholim, Panjim and Margao saw one case each.

In a statement issued on Monday, the Controller, Legal Metrology, appealed to the agencies to prevent overcharging of masks, sanitisers so that they are available at affordable rates to health services providers and consumers at large.

Section 18(1) of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 states that no retails dealer or other person including manufacturer, packer, importer, and wholesale dealer will make any sale of any commodity in packed form at a price exceeding the retail sale price thereof.

Clarification:

With reference to the above article, we would like to state that in an earlier version of this report, we had inadvertently published a representative picture of a sanitizer bearing the name STERIMAX, manufactured at a division of Tulip diagnostics (P) Ltd in Verna Goa.

We would like to explicitly state that the said picture, which we have immediately removed, was purely for representative purposes and not intended to indicate in any way that sanitizers manufactured by STERIMAX were of poor quality

The said picture earlier published, does NOT in whatsoever manner bear reference to any of the products raided by the legal metrology team.

The uploading of the photograph in question is regretted and was not done in any deliberate or malicious manner to hurt the reputation of the brand STERIMAX or its parent company- Editor

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