How to block "spend money on health" trap?

09:26 September 28, 2015

Source: the procuratorial daily

Health food consumption areas become old people cheated, not only spent money to buy back a bunch of useless things, also let their physical and mental damage. To block traps "spend money on health", we must multi-pronged, comprehensive.

One is the social, family, children, the elderly, to strengthen the right to health of the elderly health knowledge propaganda, guidance, especially children to communicate more with the old man, to be caring and attentive. Let the old man understand "heaven won't fall pie", know health care is not drugs, not have cure function, let them feel the children's filial piety, have something to discuss how to communicate with their children, restless faith swindler not relatives. Avoid the old man in the lonely, thus skimping, face saving, afraid of illness of fragile psychological, easily into such as false health lecture, free experience, gifts, such as shopping to return money liar trap, or under the curative effect of health care products "cure-all" boast, lose should have resistance, fall into trap "spend money on health".

2 it is industrial and commercial, food medicine, public security and other functional departments to strengthen law enforcement, to crack down on false advertising, health product market're incapable and telecommunications fraud and other illegal and criminal behavior, increase the cost of illegal crime. Not only to let unscrupulous merchants a refund, also want to impose a fine, etc., for more to be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law. Avoid law enforcement after thunder, illegal businessmen or cheat or repeat performance, or "play a gun in one place," more people flinch.

At present, some businesses selling health care products when medicine, its "efficacy" false propaganda, cheat and mislead consumers, seduce and credulous old man cheated information block. This violated the law prohibited provisions, relevant departments should be actively enforcement strong-arm reaction. According to advertisement law, unfair competition law, can "impose fines of more than twice and less than five times the advertising expenses" or "according to plot a fine of more than ten thousand yuan and two hundred thousand yuan". According to the food safety law, should be "given a warning; refuses to correct, a fine of not more than two thousand yuan and twenty thousand yuan; if the circumstances are serious, order to suspend production or business operation, until the" license. If the production does not conform to the food safety standards of food or sales is knowing that do not conform to the food safety standards, person, property or other damage, in addition to compensate consumers, should also be "return a compensate ten", namely the refund payment and punitive compensation according to its ten times the amount.

All in all, only the propaganda in place, enhance consumer fraud prevention capacity, and strict law enforcement, form a powerful deterrent, block traps "spend money on health" effectively, the normal order and safeguard the lawful rights and interests the elderly health care products market.