Peruvian Supermarkets, consortium under the umbrella of Intercorp Group, affirmed this last Friday, December 10, that the Bells Panettone They do not contain trans fats, as warned by the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi), “Thus complying with all the regulations issued by the Health Authority and current regulations. Result that matches the original analyzes provided by the manufacturer ”.
The response from the supermarket chain came after Indecopi imposed a precautionary measure last Friday, December 3, and ordered the cessation and sale of the famous Easter bread together with marbled Bimboletes (Bimbo), and Cheese Tris (Frito Lay).
In a press release, Peruvian Supermarkets reported that after the issuance of the Resolution of Indecopi, They assigned samples of their products to be analyzed by experts.
“Immediately samples of three batches of the product were sent to the external and independent laboratory ALS LS PERÚ SAC accredited by INACAL, the same one that, after the corresponding analyzes, has determined that the Bells panettone does not show trans fat content”, reads the company in your letter.
Along these lines, he affirms that the analyzes carried out on the Bells Panettone reveal numbers of trans isomers lower than 0.01; that is, technically without trans fat content, thus complying with all the regulations issued by the Health Authority and current regulations.
Likewise, the chain will make available to Indecopi the studies carried out “in order to review the precautionary measure issued, and that the product can be returned to the market as soon as possible for the benefit of thousands of consumers.”
They also exhorted “that Indecopi’s technical entities review the applied methodology so that consumers receive truthful and accurate information.”
ASPEC warns of legal strategy to refute Indecopi analysis
For the Peruvian Association of Consumers and Users (ASPEC), companies would be thinking of a legal strategy to avoid their responsibilities by seeking a “third opinion”.
In the opinion of Crisologo Cáceres, President of ASPEC, and taking into account the experience of said institution, “what is sought is that laboratories in Peru and abroad, chosen by the same offending companies, issue new and convenient reports disqualifying the results of the analyzes carried out by Indecopi that they served as support for the sanctions imposed in order to diminish their probative merit and thus come out well off in the second instance ”.
If questionable resolutions such as bread are considered Bimbo issued by the Indecopi Specialized Chamber that, in an unprecedented way, agreed with the company, it is very possible that the offenders will get away with it.
“Therefore, the only way to prevent it is to anticipate and design a technical-legal strategy that anticipates what is coming. In this sense, ASPEC will support Indecopi to face what is coming in defense of consumers’ rights ”, declared Cáceres.
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