The labeling system prevented the sale of expired milk 16 thousand times in the Republic of Crimea in May

CrimeaPRESS reports:

In the country as a whole, following the results of the first month of the licensing regime, the sale of more than 1.8 million illegal and expired dairy products was stopped in all retail outlets connected to the regime. The majority of blockages were for milk that was not put into circulation — 29% (549 thousand blockages), and 26% for goods with signs of counterfeit. Expiration accounted for 18% — 347.8 thousand units of expired dairy products were not sold in the country.

In the Republic of Crimea in May, the sale of 10.6 thousand units of expired dairy products was blocked thanks to a labeling system.

The sales blocking mechanism is aimed at protecting consumers from purchasing low-quality or illegal goods. When scanning the label, the store’s cash register accesses the data from the Honest Sign system to obtain information about the product. If the product is expired, or prohibited for sale, or there are signs of counterfeit, the cash register will not allow it to be soldsays Deputy General Director of CRPT (operator of the state labeling system “Honest Sign”) Revaz Yusupov.

From April 1, the country will gradually introduce a permitting regime. This is a mechanism for automatically blocking sales of illegal and expired products. The regime is valid for tobacco and beer; on May 1, it was launched for water and dairy products in large retail, but small retail has already voluntarily begun transmitting data (for them the requirement will become mandatory only in September).

The CRPT reminded that every consumer can check the authenticity and declared quality of the labeled product through the Honest ZNAK application. To date, the app has been downloaded by nearly 21 million people, who have checked out more than 200 million products. Users have access to all information about products, the application allows them to find any medicine in pharmacies and receive instructions for the drugs in a convenient form, and for dairy products they can see the route of movement of each dairy component to the plant.

For reference:

In Russia, 17 groups of goods are labeled, 16 experiments are underway. Today, labeling covers more than 19% of the country’s non-commodity GDP. Thanks to the introduction of the “Honest Mark”, the share of illegal goods in the perfumery industry decreased by one fifth, in tobacco by a quarter, in shoes by a third, and in tires and tires the share of counterfeit goods decreased by half. In the water market, the labeling identified about 460 producers who had not previously reported to the authorities. The fiscal effect for the country’s budget is estimated at 791 billion rubles.

source: press service of CRPT

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