DTI, NBI seize hundreds of boxes of automotive batteries from Q.C. warehouse

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00:00A joint trade and industry and National Bureau of Investigation or NBI team descended on a

00:06Mondescript warehouse that yielded a huge cache of unmarked and generic car batteries

00:12believed to be of substandard quality. Our Clazel Pardilla tells us more.

00:19On the second floor of this warehouse in Barangay Mandesa, Quezon City,

00:23the Department of Trade and Industry and the National Bureau of Investigation intercepted

00:28hundreds of boxes of automated batteries with a total count of 21,000 battery units

00:34valued at close to 94 million pesos. The operation was launched after authorities

00:40received complaints about sale of their cheap batteries that turned out to be unregistered.

00:58According to the Department of Trade and Industry, thousands of batteries stored in that warehouse

01:18pose a safety risk. They both lack an import commodity clearance and a product safety mark,

01:24which means they failed to pass the quality safety muster.

01:28Uncertified and presumably unsafe.

01:49Two business employees have been arrested. The owner is being identified and will face charges

01:54under the Consumer Act and Product Standards laws, which carry penalties of imprisonment and

02:00fines. The Quezon City local government has issued a closure order to seal the warehouse.

02:05Meanwhile, the products will be tested, and if they are found to be substandard,

02:09the DTI will take further action. The agency urges the public to be cautious

02:14of unusually low-priced products and to carefully inspect their purchases.

02:19Clazel Pardilla for the new and better Philippines.

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