Lodi: Guardia di Finanza seizes over 11.000 products not compliant with safety standards

La Guardia di Finanza continues constantly, even as the Christmas holidays approach, in its commitment to ensure, in conditions of full legality, the protection of “made in Italy”, to safeguard the Italian production fabric and to guarantee consumer safety.

The Finance Police of the Provincial Command of Lodi, ensuring the necessary daily economic control activity of the entire province, during a series of checks, carried out with the specific aim of repressing all those illicit phenomena in terms of product safety, have subjected to seized over 11.000 items not compliant with the safety standards required by Community and national legislation, in violation of the "consumer code".

In particular, soldiers from the Lodi Group carried out a series of checks at various commercial establishments, finding, placed for sale on special shelves, over 930 “unsafe” footwear products and soldiers of the Casalpusterlengo Company have subjected to 10.200 Christmas decorations seized that did not comply with safety standards and lacked the minimum mandatory information.

In fact, these goods were found not to comply with the provisions of the Consumer Code because the packages lacked the minimum information required by current legislation. The presence of such information is compulsory for the marketing of products, as guarantees the consumer the necessary knowledge regarding the goods he is purchasing and, especially, health safety in using the product.

At the end of the checks, the products that did not comply with the safety standards were subjected to administrative seizure and have been issued fines of over 30.000 euros.

The Fiamme Gialle of Lodi, in the interest of end consumers, who could be harmed by the use of products that do not comply with industry regulations, and of commercial operators who are careful to verify all the requirements set by law for the products to be put on sale and who could instead suffer the negative consequences of a market "polluted" by non-compliant goods, are ready to ensure effective consumer protection and safeguard fair competition.