The Public Consumer Initiative (PCI) association has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade to check the work of Wildberries and Ozon in connection with “serious violations” in the sale of bottled drinking water, Vedomosti reports.
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The State Information System for Monitoring Goods sent a letter to the department stating that their specialists, using monitoring, identified more than a hundred entrepreneurs on the Wildberries and Ozon sites who are not registered in the State Information System for Monitoring Goods. This means that the goods they sold (more than 1,000 bottles of drinking water) were sold without labeling, and these products do not comply with the requirements of the EAEU technical regulations "On the safety of packaged drinking water, including natural mineral water," according to the appeal. At the same time, the letter emphasizes that the scale of the problem is "much more serious" and will become apparent as the study continues.
The OPI asks the Ministry of Industry and Trade to “take measures to stop unfair practices” and force marketplaces to check the legality of suppliers and products admitted to the sites using “publicly available government information systems.”
In the first six months of this year, Russia produced 6.7 billion liters of drinking water, which is 21.3% higher than the same period last year, according to CRPT data. According to the site, sales of this product through Wildberries increased by 5.5% year-on-year during this period. Ozon's sales increased by 26% year-on-year.
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