The National Authority for Consumer Protection (ANPC) has carried out a series of checks at companies operating in the field of funeral pumps. Cristian Popescu Piedone showed what irregularities he discovered at a company in Bucharest.
Piedone, in control of Funeral PHOTO FIRMS: ANPC video capture
“I have received, lately, numerous notifications regarding the services offered by funeral firms. Because the customers of these companies are also consumers, we have decided to start a control, to verify that the claimed ones are true“, Stated Cristian Popescu Piedone, the head of ANPC, in a post on his Facebook page, in which he also included a video during some checks carried out in Bucharest.
He gives as an example a company in the Capital, which was sanctioned contraventionally with a fine in the amount of 10,000 lei. It was also ordered that the activity would be temporarily suspended.
“Following the operative control carried out at the Economic Operator Infinity Original SRL, with the working point located in Mihai Bravu street no. 380A, PVCC was prepared no 1205311/20.06.2025, and the economic operator was sanctioned contraventionally with the fine of 10,000 lei. Also, 60 packages with food, worth 5,400 lei, stored improperly, were permanently stopped from consumption. In this case, the measure of temporary stop providing services has been ordered“, Added the head of ANPC.
It was discovered that the company stored the food packages near the coffin. “These are catering products, right? And they are kept on the floor so, next to … the last road? You don’t have to have specially arranged, refrigerated spaces? “, Asks Piedone, in the video. The company representatives are heard when they respond shy:”Yes!”.
“Packages with food are not put next to the dead at the moment when they are transported. Many companies practice this. He put the dead, he also put the packages next to him …“He adds.
“Meet all the conditions for suspending the activity”, Is the conclusion of the head of the National Authority for Consumer Protection.
