CPA monitors markets selling weed in North Al Batinah

Muscat: The Consumer Protection Directorate in North Al Batinah Governorate has intensified its monitoring campaigns on weed markets in the governorate.

This is in order to ensure their availability, especially during this period, and that there are no abuses in this sector.

Earlier, the Directorate, represented by the Consumer Services and Market Control Department, carried out a sudden inspection campaign on the sector of shops selling tobacco, cigarettes and its derivatives, groceries, and ironing shops, to ensure their compliance with the laws and regulations stipulated in the Consumer Protection Law, its executive regulations, and the decisions issued, and to detect abuses and fraudulent, imitated, and non-conforming goods.

The campaign included all the wilayats of the Al Batinah North Governorate, which was carried out through 6 inspection teams of judicial control officers, which resulted in the seizure of (144) various samples of chewed tobacco (non-smoked) and electronic cigarettes, and the seizure of (55) violating shops and the issuance of (36) violations that varied between offering and selling adulterated goods, and those not obliging to write down the explanatory data.