Don’t buy expired products [Archives:2002/48/Local News]

TAIZ – As a result of the market being flooded with expired canned products, Faisal al-Mansoub, the Chairman of the Yemen Society for Consumer Protection, YSCP warns local consumers to not buy date-expired products.
“Consumers have got accustomed to buy during the Holy Month of Ramadhan a piles of uncalled-for products and commodities,” he told the Yemen Times. “Some greedy merchants exploit peoples’ needs and as a result, piled quantities of foodstuff and other goods are shown to the public which are in reality are either about to finish or expired,” he noted further.
Al-Mansoub indicated further that some merchants restore to deceptive and dishonest means for alluring the consumers to sell non-origin or spoiled foodstuff to the public.
The flooding of spoiled cans into our markets can be ascribed to not adhering to the proper manufacturing standards particularly, the thermal factors such as, sterilization.
In addition to this, the marketing and unsuitable storage circumstances for the canned foodstuff is of great danger to the human health.
“The dishonest means used for selling goods cannot be solved, unless there are cooperative efforts between the consumer and YSCP and to inform the bodies concerned of the date-expired products,” he further warned.

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