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Case | Selling tea bags added with uncommon ingredients, the court sentenced the merchant to ten times compensation

 
Yang buy "HOTTA dietary mushroom ginger tea bag" from an e-commerce business in Yiwu. The product ingredients shows ganoderma extract, cordyceps sinensis extracts. The court held that the addition of ganoderma extract and cordyceps sinensis extract to the goods violated the "Approval of the Ministry of Health on Common Food Issues" and the "Notice on the Not Using Cordyceps as Common Food Ingredients" by the Food Production Supervision Department of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. The goods involved in the case did not meet food safety, so the court support the plaintiff's claim refund payment and ten times compensation claims according to the laws and regulations.

        杨某购买的义乌市某电子商务商行销售的“HOTTA福大膳食蘑菇姜茶包”,涉案产品配料表显示有灵芝提取物、冬虫夏草提取物,法院认为涉案商品中添加灵芝提取物、冬虫夏草提取物,违反了《卫生部关于普通食品问题的批复》及国家质量监督检验检疫总局食品生产监管司《关于冬虫夏草不得作为普通食品原料的通知》的规定,涉案商品不符合食品安全,故原告主张退还货款及十倍赔偿的诉讼请求,于法有据,法院予以支持。



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