Penalty for cheating with food considerably higher – Yahoo! News

The maximum penalties that companies can get to defraud with food, go up considerably. 4,500 euros to a maximum of 810,000 euros.

That’s parliament decided. The Consumer Association is pleased with the increase of the fines. “The current penalties were a joke,” the Bond. The Food Safety Authority (NVWA) can impose fines on fraudulent companies

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The amendment to the Food and Drugs Act was filed by the Labour MP Shura Dikkers. This follows the affair by salmonella salmon company Soother.

Minister Edith Schippers had in its original proposal support an increase to a maximum fine of 81,000 euros. That amount at the request of the Chamber further tenfold.

Big boys
According Dikkers are fraudulent companies ‘often big boys who willfully defraud with food for some more profit’

She is glad that the law is amended: ‘Yes, we have changed the law, “she twittered

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