The National Institute for the Protection of Consumer Rights (Pro Consumidor) and the Specialized Body for the Control of Fuels and Merchandise Trade (CECCOM) jointly initiated preventive operations, in an attempt to avoid the sale of adulterated and counterfeit alcoholic beverages during these Christmas festivities.
The executive director of Pro ConsumidorEddy Alcantarasaid that both institutions agreed to intervene in 22 provinces of the entire national territory with their respective municipalities, “in places where the focus of commercialization of these lethal products for the health of the people who ingested them was located.”
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“In the same way that the lethality from the intake of these adulterated alcoholic beverages has been eradicated, operations have continued to try to prevent their proliferation and commercialization, an illegal and criminal practice that caused hundreds of deaths,” he stressed. .
In this sense, the official stated that both Pro Consumidor and the Specialized Body for the Control of Fuels and Trade in Merchandise guarantee the Dominican population, as in past years, that their health will be protected in these December celebrations.
“In these Christmas festivities of Christmas Eve and New Years It is expected that not a single Dominican will be affected by the consumption of adulterated alcohol and therefore will not be part of the fatality statistics as a result of their ingestion,” he asserted.
The official also indicated that one of the successes that the government of Luis Abinader and the management he presides over at the head of Pro Consumidor has had, has been the fight against counterfeit alcohol, a practice that has been going on for many years “and the previous authorities were not concerned with responsibly facing this scourge”.
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They call the population
Pro Consumer and Ceccom called on the population to contact these entities “in order to immediately intervene in it and apply the full weight of the law” if they have any information about the commercialization of adulterated alcohol in a store.
In addition, they recommended that citizens avoid the consumption of those alcoholic beverages whose origin is doubtful, “and not buy suspicious alcoholic beverages on the street, nor receive these types of products from unknown persons.”
