The Prosecutor General's Office is asked to stop the sale of energy drinks on the Internet
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The Prosecutor General's Office is being urged to take action in connection with the sale of energy drinks to minors on online sites. The head of the department, Igor Krasnov, was asked to do so by Oleg Pavlov, head of the Public Council at Rospotrebnadzor and head of the Public Consumer Initiative (PCI).
In the letter, which "Izvestia" has, he says that OPI conducted a monitoring study of the assortment and the order of sale of soft tonic drinks (NTDs) on the largest online sites.
According to him, the public made control purchases and revealed a number of significant violations. The mechanisms used by online platforms for placing and issuing orders facilitate circumvention of the ban on the sale of BTNs to minors effective from March 1, 2025, he notes.
"Despite the established restrictions, at present a child can still freely register an account, indicating inaccurate or incomplete data about himself, order energy drinks, including with payment by his personal bank card (issued to a minor), without presenting a passport to receive these drinks both from the courier and at the point of delivery of orders", - stated in the appeal.
The document points out: online sellers do not check the age of the buyer when ordering, paying and transferring energy drinks, it actually leveled the effect of the ban on the sale of energy drinks to minors. In this regard, there is a real threat of harm to their health. The letter also notes the peculiarity of distance selling on online platforms, which involves the participation in the sale of several entities at once - the owner of the service, the seller, the courier service, the point of delivery of orders.
This, according to Pavlov, blurs the responsibility for such offenses.
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