Government-enterprise disputes

Analysis of typical cases involving the business environment. The case described in this article is an administrative penalty case regarding whether to sell expired products.基本案情：2017年8月，某区监管局接到邹某的举报称在某超市购买了一袋东海带鱼段，生产日期是2016年的11月5日，保质期是九个月。 Zou said he bought it on August 7, so he reported the supermarket for selling expired products. After the district market supervision bureau opened the case for investigation, it inspected the suppliers of the products involved. According to the supplier's purchase records, the batch of hairtail products reported by the whistleblower was not purchased at all. Therefore, the Supervision Bureau believed that the supermarket had not purchased this batch of hairtail fish-related goods at all and could not sell them, so it decided not to impose administrative penalties.

Zou was dissatisfied and applied for administrative reconsideration to the district authorities, who upheld the district market supervision bureau’s reply. It was also found that Zou had made settlements with the supermarket many times regarding expired merchandise and obtained compensation.超市同时提供了视频录像，邹某多次就商品过期问题跟超市达成和解，而且，超市有录像能够证明邹某曾有过夹带过期商品进入超市，然后冒充超市销售的商品，然后跟超市要求索赔，取得赔偿款。

Based on the above facts, both the market supervision department and the district competent authority conducting the administrative review determined that there was no problem with Zou’s reply.因为涉及到职业打假的问题，也确实存在一些通过打假的方式进行诈骗、敲诈勒索的违法行为，通过向相关部门进行举报查处销售过期产品，以此要挟经营者对其进行赔偿。当然这种职业打假行为，无疑对广大的消费者是非常有利的，因为这使得相关的经营者不敢去销售过期的这种商品，在这个方面是保障了广大人民群众的身体健康。因为可能很多的人购买了商品，就是有些人会去关注销售产品的期限问题，可能有些人没有太关注这些问题，但是使用过期商品，可能真的是对咱们的身体会造成某种伤害，所以，职业打假的这种行为存在是有它现实的意义的。 However, there are also some people who fish in troubled waters and engage in extortion in the name of fighting counterfeiting, intercepting illegal benefits for their illegal purposes.

本案法院根据上述的相关证据，邹某提供的证据不能充分证明所购买的相关产品确系该超市销售的商品，且超市提供的证据证明其未购进该批次的相关产品，所以，对于邹某的举报作出的回复并无不当，然后驳回邹某的相关诉讼请求。

If the product is indeed expired, how do we consumers protect our rights?我们能做的是要保存好相应的证据，比如购买商品的小票，某些平台也都有自己的APP，销售相关的产品也有罗列，所以我们发现存在这种问题时，要及时的保存下相关的证据。

另外，我们要把相关产品的外包装保存好，这些都是我们在进行相关的维权以及举报的时候，可以作为证据使用的。 If such infringement does occur, we must resolutely safeguard our rights and interests.如果我们遭遇到相关行政机关不作为的这种情形的话，我们手里要有相关的证据，才能够切实地维护好我们的合法权益。

本案的典型意义是职业打假对完善我国的产品质量、消费者领域的立法以及执法起到了积极的作用，但是，也存在部分恶意打假人缺乏诚信，制造打假案件有可能涉及到刑事犯罪的问题。 This kind of malicious crackdown on counterfeiting to seek unfair benefits undoubtedly disrupts social order and wastes administrative resources. In this case, the relevant administrative agencies protected the rights and interests of legal operators. The court supported the administrative agencies’ exercise of market supervision and management powers in accordance with the law, which played a positive role in improving the business environment of the supermarket retail industry. This is to protect the business environment and operators from another angle. Because sometimes in the process of cracking down on counterfeiting, in some cases, roles may be reversed, and operators become a vulnerable group. Therefore, in this process, we must make judgments based on basic facts. If operators do sell expired products, the market supervision and management department must resolutely punish them. If not, their rights and interests should be protected.

The legal knowledge in this article does not represent legal advice. If you encounter similar problems, you should analyze them in detail.