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According to the service, since 2017, violations of the Straikas company food labeling and advertising have been observed, and prohibited statements about its properties, nutrition and health have been used in their descriptions.
“We are determined to comply, clarify, consult, (…) provide all the help to the company to better understand, find and substantiate the statements. And by time, we are not limited, we do not compress in time, we also understand the situation of the struggle, the economic situation. We will give the company enough time and a year, and if more is needed, but in principle, it cannot last forever, ”said Darius Remeika, the head of the service, at the press conference.
According to him, the service received a letter from the company on Wednesday, in which it agreed with a significant number of labeling violations and promised to correct them.
Vaida Barkovskienė, head of the Vilnius Service department, said that due to violations, the company was transferred in February last year, but then did not agree not to withdraw them.
“The violations have been on the Internet since February last year, we cannot find any dialogue to eliminate the violations,” V. Barovskienė said at the press conference.
He also stressed that the service cannot make reservations for any company.
Jurgita Petrulionė, Straiko’s marketing manager, told BNS that the company has corrected most of the violations, but has evidence of the validity of the use of some of the allegations and does not intend to remove them.
“We do not agree that we cannot create fairy tales, that beets cannot spread the energy of iron, we do not agree that we cannot call our products a balanced diet, that we cannot call Marmaluzi cereals” J. Petrulionė told BNS.
According to her, if the company were fined for it, it would go to court.
At the time, Ona Keblienė, acting head of the Service’s Food Division, said that health and nutritional claims are strictly regulated and claims about treatment or prevention on food products are strictly prohibited.
According to her, the State Service for the Protection of Consumer Rights can impose a fine for violation of the Advertising Law and, when considering the cases, it will take into account all the circumstances, even if the company has corrected the violations identified in good faith. .
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