Sino-Singapore Online, May 20 (Zhang Jianlin, Peng Peng) Today (May 20) is World Measurement Day. In order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, the market supervision department of Jinshan District in Shanghai found businesses using cheating scales during law enforcement inspections Conduct a notification to further regulate the order of market operations. A reporter at the Jinshan Petrochemical Market Supervision and Management Institute saw the five cheating scales seized. The staff said that the current cheating scales are very easy to operate. This model only needs to enter the password 156 on the button and press the tare button to enter cheating. In the mode, every time you press the 0 key after entering the cheating mode, you can have a weight of 100 grams out of nothing. The five cheating scales seized this time were all officially produced by the same manufacturer, but they were used as cheating scales after being transformed by undesirable second-hand vendors. These unscrupulous vendors only accepted cash transactions during mobile marketing, which brought certain difficulties to source enforcement. .
Chen Hao, a staff member of the Jinshan District Petrochemical Market Supervision and Administration Office in Shanghai, told reporters that the market manager and several stalls have been notified. If there are any illegal merchants who come to sell cheating scales, they will immediately contact the market supervision department to report. At the same time, a cheating scale inspection operation will be conducted in conjunction with the public security department.
According to the "Measurement Law of the People's Republic of China", the market supervision department in Jinshan District of Shanghai imposed an administrative penalty of 2,000 yuan on illegal businesses and confiscated their illegal gains. In addition, the regulatory authorities have also increased the notification of seized cheating scales, allowing citizens to form an invisible scale in their hearts.
So how can citizens avoid being "short of catties" when shopping? Jin Xuefei, a staff member of the Shanghai Jinshan District Market Supervision Bureau, said that first of all, it is necessary to observe whether the electronic price scale is on a flat horizontal surface and whether the zero point is normal. At the same time, after shopping in the farmers' market, citizens can go to the fair scale to re-scale in time. When purchasing commodities such as live poultry and live fish, they need to re-scale before slaughter. The electronic scales used by consumers and merchants for settlement must go through the annual mandatory inspection by the District Metrology Institute. After passing the inspection, a strong inspection pass mark will be posted for the convenience of the public. Consumers can also weigh the keys or mobile phones they carry on the fair scale, and then after the seller has weighed the goods, there is no other extra operation, directly put the mobile phone or key on the electronic scale to check whether the value is accurate. (Finish)