Cases on Quality and Safety of Product and Services
Cambodia , 02 February 2018
One coffee company advertised on tv about there were chemical coffee in the market, they told people that consuming coffee from other stores causes sickness to people. Natural coffee is only available from their store. The department of consumer protection and fraud repression had invited the owner of company to explained about the purpose of the ads. Based on article 21 of the law on the management of the quality and safety of product and services, the competent authority has instructed the company owner to stop the ads and correct it in the good sense and respected the other coffee companies which run the same product business in the market, but the company did not stop displaying those ads on tv.
The ministry of commerce had asked the ministry of information to withdraw the permission of advertising from that company on tv for a period of time.