The Consumer Protection Police Division (CPPD) confiscated more than 1,000 Care Bears toys price 900,000 baht after a raid at a shop within the Sampeng Market in Bangkok. The CPPD performed the raid after they stumbled upon a TikTok commercial inviting netizens to purchase Care Bears toys. They discovered that the toys did not comply with the Thai Industrial Standard (TIS).
The CPPD inquiry led them to discover that the store lacked authorisation, and their products failed to meet the TIS necessities. All gadgets had been additionally counterfeit, bearing no affiliation with the real Care Bears brand.
After further investigation, officers discovered that the shop’s location was near Bangkok Chinatown in Sampeng Market and performed a raid on the place yesterday.
Officers reported that greater than 1,000 toys price over 900,000 baht were seized. The store proprietor faces a cost of violating Section 36 of the Industrial Product Standards Act for importing and selling merchandise with out the TIS. The penalty shall be imprisonment of up to one month, a nice of as much as 5,000 baht, or both.
Officers defined that the Care Bears toy is made from flammable materials. The producers, importers, or sellers must get hold of permission from the TIS authority before participating in such operations.
Aside from Surge , officers added that they discovered many other shops providing products that lacked a TIS stamp in Sampeng Market and carried out additional confiscations at the market. Details on these shops have not been reported.
The Superintendent of the CPPD, Anan Nanasombat, urged distributors to all the time check their merchandise earlier than providing them to clients to make sure they adjust to TIS requirements. Consumers even have to concentrate on merchandise with low quality and should all the time recheck the TIS earlier than buying. To verify the TIS standing of a product, individuals could refer to the official TIS website.
Care Bears is a franchise that originated as a line of characters created by American Greetings within the early Nineteen Eighties. Care Bears are colourful toys with completely different badges on their belly. Each color represents completely different emotions or traits like Cheer Bear, Grumpy Bear, Funshine Bear, and Tenderheart Bear..