Spaza Shops Shut Down for Selling Fake Food
Reports about fake food and other products including used condoms, allegedly sold by some foreigners, the health department has expressed its concern to consumers and suggests they remain vigilant when buying.1 Penny Campbell, the director of the food directorate at the national department of health, has said that consumers or rather victims of fake foods should be on the lookout (alert) and report illicit food and goods sold to the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa and alert regulators about fake products.2 Distributors of such illicit goods contravene the Counterfeit Goods and Foodstuffs acts.3 The Star newspaper, which alleged that the scandal traces back to Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals in Johannesburg who produce and sell fake food.4 (TimesLive)This is alar...