An Enterprise in Guangdong Was Punished for Selling Unqualified Cement

According to Credit China News, Qiangsheng Building Materials Co., Ltd. in Suixi County, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, was punished for selling cement with unqualified net content. On March 17,

2023, the party concerned purchased 100 tons of "Zhanfeng Brand Masonry Cement M32.5" cement from Zhanjiang New Canal Building Materials Co., Ltd. at a purchase price of 250 yuan per ton, a sales price of 341 yuan per ton, and a value of 34100 (100 * 341 = 34100). By the day of inspection by law enforcement officers, 58 tons had been sold and 42 tons remained. On March 21,

2023, the staff of Zhanjiang Quality Metrology Supervision and Inspection Institute sampled and tested 42 tons of "Zhanfeng Brand Masonry Cement M32.5" (marked with production enterprise: Lianjiang Hechun Rongxing Co., Ltd., batch number: 20230316) cement products in the warehouse of the party concerned, with a total sample of 840 bags. Each bag is 50 kg, and 80 bags are sampled by simple random sampling. On April 7,

2023, an inspection report (Report No.: ABG2300004) submitted by Zhanjiang Quality Metrology Supervision and Inspection Institute of Guangdong Province showed that the net content of masonry cement sampled by the company on March 21 was unqualified. The illegal act of

selling cement products with unqualified net content violates Article 9 of the Measures for the Measurement Supervision and Administration of Quantitatively Packaged Commodities, which stipulates that the average actual content of quantitatively packaged commodities in batches shall be greater than or equal to the marked net content. If the method of

sampling is used to evaluate an inspection lot of quantitatively packed commodities, the sampling inspection and calculation shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of Schedule 4 of these Measures. The number of samples in which the difference between the marked net content and the actual content of a single quantitatively packed commodity in the sample is greater than allowable shortage and the average actual content of the sample shall conform to the provisions of Schedule 4 of these Measures.

According to Article 18 of the Measures for the Metrological Supervision and Administration of Quantitatively Packaged Commodities, "If a quantitatively packaged commodity produced or sold violates the provisions of Article 9 of these Measures after inspection, it shall be ordered to make corrections, and a fine of less than three times the value of the inspection batch may be imposed, with a maximum of 30000 yuan." The party concerned shall be ordered to correct the illegal act and shall be fined not more than three times the value of the inspection batch and not more than 30000 yuan.