Inspections into Soweto spaza shops have revealed noncompliance with consumer safety laws and some stores were found with expired food on their shelves yesterday.
During a sweep of about 16 shops by the National Consumer Commission (NCC), expired food was found on shelves and some owners had no proper documents to operate.
There were mislabelled or unlabelled items for sale.
The NCC carried out the raids on Monday and yesterday after six children died a week ago after eating snacks purchased from a spaza shop in Naledi, Soweto. The inspections will continue for the rest of the week to check if owners are complying with the Consumer Protection Act and by-laws and regulations.
A shop that was raided and shut down last year after it was suspected that two children died after they ate biscuits bought from it, was found with no compliance documents yesterday. It was closed down again.
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