JEDEC tackles counterfeiters with new standard
International standards body JEDEC has published JESD243, which addresses manufacturers’ responsibilities in the fight against counterfeit electronic parts.According to the body, JESD243 – which applies to monolithic microcircuits, hybrid microcircuits and discrete semiconductors – identifies the best commercial practices that should be adopted by all manufacturers of electronic parts to avoid counterfeit products entering the supply chain.In a wide ranging definition, JEDEC says a manufacturer of parts is an original component manufacturer, an authorised aftermarket manufacturer or any other company that manufactures products under its own logo name or trademark.
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Doncaster trading standards officers seize 85,000 counterfeit cigarettes in black market clamp down
More than 85,000 fake cigarettes – plus 40kg of illicit rolling tobacco – have been seized in Doncaster in less than a year.Trading Standards officers found the counterfeit smoking materials using dogs, who sniffed out some of the haul stashed behind secret doors and in hidden panels.The illicit products discovered since April last year were worth an estimated £25,000.
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Rimutaka prison guard jailed for corruptly smuggling in phones, tobacco, food
He used to be on the right side of the bars. Now a prison guard will experience life on the other side of lock and key.Alofainu’uTuisamoa, 42, a corrections officer at Rimutaka prison for 10 years, was jailed on Friday for taking $36,400 from prisoners in return for supplying them with goods like phones, tobacco and fast food.
Tuisamoa, who was caught as part of another investigation within the prison, was sentenced by Wellington District Court judge Denys Barry to two years and two months jail.
He had pleaded guilty to corruptly accepting a bribe to take in unauthorised items to a prisoner and of supplying tobacco against the regulations.
FG Empowers SON To Jail Substandard Product Dealers For 10yrs
Federal Government has empowered Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to jail dealers in substandard products for ten years. Thus, SON has given a 24 hours ultimatum to tyre dealers in the country to destroy every fake tyre in their stock or face prosecution.
Acting Director General of SON, Dr. Paul Angya, gave the ultimatum at a stakeholder’s forum for tyre dealers in Lagos, stating: “Our new Act 2015 empowered us to jail promoters of sub-standard product up to 10 years and we will not relent to jail any culprit. Dr.Angya who said that the era of seizure and destruction of fake and substandard products was over, made reference to a recent report by the Road Safety Commission stating that out of 8,986 accidents recorded in 2015, 722 were due to tyre bursts, resulting in the death of 446 persons.
Fake Bake refreshes brand identity
Popular self-tan Fake Bake has refreshed their brand identity to celebrate their 15th anniversary in the UK. The new packaging is part of an overall brand strategy for Fake Bake, which will position them more uniformly on a global scale. Consumers in the UK will start to see the new packaging this month, and it will expand to Fake Bakes’ global locations throughout 2016.
The packaging which was designed in-house, took 6 months to perfect. Fake Bake worked with focus groups and took into consideration feedback from top beauty journalists to ensure the redesign was consumer friendly.
http://www.packagingnews.co.uk/design/new-packs/fake-bake-refreshes-brand-identity-17-03-2016
Lear MoreBe Wary of Fake Food Online
The online grocery channel is expected to grow 15 to 18 percent over the next decade, according to a study from consultancy ATKearney. A subset of this business growing at the same time is the sale of fake food products.
The estimated value of the global counterfeiting marketing for food today is $49 billion, according to NetNames, a leading online brand protection firm that tracks, identifies, and removes rogue websites. The firm says fake food products account for as much as 15 percent of all the illegal goods seized in six leading global markets.
Govt to increase scrutiny of online retail: report
The government will intensify its efforts to monitor goods sold via online retail, as the sector has drawn the most complaints since 2014, Beijing-based Legal Mirror newspaper reported Tuesday, citing an official. Yang Hongcan, an official in charge of consumer rights protection with the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), was quoted as saying that the SAIC handled 6,737 legal cases in regulating online retail in 2015.
Tuesday was also the World Consumer Rights Day.
Gold smuggling thrives across Myanmar’s borders
The thriving illegal business in gold across Myanmar’s porous borders is likely to continue unchecked until the government legalises trade of the raw material, traders and industry sources said.
Industry bodies have asked the Commerce Ministry to strike the precious metal from its list of restricted goods, saying this would boost government coffers and help to combat smuggling, the Myanmar Times reported on Wednesday.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/899888/gold-smuggling-thrives-across-myanmar-borders
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Risks of buying fake cameras exposed by AP/BBC poll
An AP reader has warned of the dangers of buying cheap grey-market camera gear after he was told his £1,500 Canon EOS 7D was a fake. Tristan Findley was responding to an Amateur Photographer (AP) survey about counterfeit kit, launched in conjunction with BBC consumer rights show Fake Britain. ‘I always buy from authorised sellers now,’ said Tristan, who said he unwittingly bought a counterfeit Canon EOS 7D digital SLR in 2010. Tristan paid nearly £1,500 for the 18-millon-pixel camera, saving more than £200 on the list price at the time.
Fake Apple items smuggled into NYC from China, officials say
A special NYPD investigative unit working with federal agents arrested four men suspected of running a lucrative smuggling ring that brought in hundreds of thousands of fake Apple watches, iPhones, Bose speakers and other electronic items from China, officials said.
Armed with search warrants, detectives and federal agents seized more than 20,000 fake items with a retail value of at least $2.6 million at a storage facility in Queens and at the main suspect’s home, NYPD inspector John Denesopolis, commander of the newly formed criminal enterprise investigations unit, told reporters Wednesday.