THE Madrid Municipal Police a total of 1.3 million cosmetics made with carcinogenic substances in two stores and a warehouse located in the Madrid neighborhoods of Usera and Tetuán.
Officers investigating allegations responsible for its sale, a Chinese businessman who has been hunted since 2019, for alleged crimes against intellectual property and public health.
According to the newspaper ABC and police sources confirmed it to EFE, the operation took place last Wednesday morning when Usera Municipal Police officers went to one of the neighborhood establishments to check if the genre was still in circulationfollowing an operation in June 2023 in which it was determined that it needed to be sealed and immobilized.
They then verified that in addition to the products being for sale, the man had not closed the businesses after filing the file. sanctions from the Community of Madrid.
During the inspection of the premises, the agents noted a thousand boxes in the warehouse, 700 of them with nail polish with banned carcinogenic substances, such as benzophenone -aromatic ketone-, formaldehyde -very flammable- and tosylamide, which were then resold to a multitude of establishments.
Subsequently, recordings were made in the another Usera warehouse and the Tetuán store in which officers seized the remainder of the merchandise, representing a total of 1.3 million products.
The police also seized some items purchased in luxury stores on Serrano Street that the businessman gave as gifts to customers who bought the most from himdetailed police sources.
The super of horrors
Agents from the Citizen Services Office (OAC) of the Integral Police Station of the Usera District of the Madrid Municipal Police intervened in mid-October. around 300 kilos of products in poor condition in a supermarket located in the Madrid district of Useraamong which thousands of snails and black chicken meat in poor condition were found, as well as other illegal specials for sale due to their origin or size, informed Europe Press a spokesperson for the local body.
During the inspection, carried out on October 7 at 11 a.m. in a premises located at 7, Nicolás Sánchez Street, the agents discovered an alarming quantity of food. unfit for human consumptionsome of which represent a serious health risk.
The most worrying discovery concerns 22,000 specimens of a type of snail known as Cipango paludina chinensis, commonly known as “Chinese mystery snail”. This species transmits parasites dangerous to human health. These molluscs were found in polystyrene boxes, covered in mud, many of them dead, and without any type of health treatment, a fact that the supermarket manager justified by declaring that “in China, we consume it like this”.
The manager of the establishment presented a purchase invoice dated September 3 for a marine species called ‘Nassarius mutabilis’, which did not correspond to the freshwater species called ‘Cipango paludina chinensis’. In other words, they imported the genre from a country outside the EU. clandestinely, violating customs controls
