The FACUA consumer association in Castilla y León has denounced Dia before the Territorial Service of Industry, Commerce and Economy of Valladolid, a body dependent on the Junta de Castilla y León, for hiding the expired best-before date with a large square label with a barcode in several bottles of extra virgin olive oil exposed for sale.
The association has detected this practice in the supermarket located in the Plaza del Mercado in the Valladolid town of Medina del Campo. Specifically, along with several bottles of olive oil with the best before date in sight, there were others interspersed with said information hidden under a sticker.
By removing this barcode label from these bottles, it has been verified that they had a best before date of May 2023, despite the fact that they were still on sale in July 2023.
Article 18.2. of Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007, of November 16, which approves the consolidated text of the General Law for the Defence of Consumers and Users and other complementary laws, as well as article 13.3 of Law 2/2015, of March 4, which approves the Castilla y León Consumer Statute, establishes that all goods and services made available to consumers and users will have to “incorporate, accompany or, in the last case, allow them to clearly obtain and comprehensible, truthful, effective, sufficient and accessible information on its essential characteristics, in particular on the date of production or supply and batch, when required by law, recommended term for use or consumption or expiration date”.
FACUA Castilla y León has brought these facts to the attention of the Valladolid Territorial Industry, Commerce and Economy Service, and has provided graphic evidence of this practice, so that it can proceed to open a disciplinary file against Dia in the event of verifying that the law has been violated contrary to current legislation in defence of consumer rights.
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