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Authorities are strengthening inspections of food markets and wholesalers to prevent the sale of substandard and expired products ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year.

Back in 2020, the government renamed the Cambodia Import-Export and Fraud Repression directorate-general to Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression Directorate-General (CCF) and revised its roles and responsibilities.

The Directorate-General of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression (CCF) has planned seven programmes to be implemented in 2022 to increase food safety and ensure fair business practices.

At a meeting of the General Department of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression (CCF) on December 27, officials in charge of product quality control raised questions about challenges to their work such as lack of funds and equipment to inspect goods.

Officers from the Directorate-General of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression (CCF) seized about 600kg of perishable goods and nearly 1,000 litres of counterfeit alcohol (methanol) in four provinces on December 17.

Inspectors from the General Directorate of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression (CCF) found 784 petrol stations and depots that were violating the law in regards to fuel quality and pricing this year. Fines were imposed in 773 cases, while the remaining seven were serious enough to be sent to court.

Government experts and other interested parties met together for the 20th time at a workshop to discuss the drafting of a law on data protection and confidentiality, while the General Directorate of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression (CCF) confirmed that the debate regarding the law’s contents is ongoing.

Officials from the General Directorate of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression (CCF) found 17 fuel businesses in four provinces conducting illegal business, while more than 1,000kg of defective goods and over 500 litres of counterfeit alcohol were confiscated and destroyed from October 18-20.

Kandal provincial police have sent three suspects who are owners of gas stations to court in connection with offences concerning the destruction or covering up of evidence and obstruction of an investigation after they had been arrested on October 12 after failing to cooperate with police who wanted to inspect their gas stations.

Since the beginning of October, authorities found nearly 30 petrol depots exploiting customers in contravention of the consumer protection law.