Our client, a fish products manufacturer, discovered in April 2026 that goods allegedly produced by his company on order from one of the wholesale buyers (a sole proprietor) were being sold in retail stores. However, the label and packaging information did not comply with our client’s quality standards, and the ingredients list indicated on the package failed to reflect the actual presence of preservatives. Our client correlated the fact of this batch appearing for sale with another event: in December 2025, our client had supplied hot-smoked trout to this sole proprietor with a remaining shelf life of one month. Our client assumed that the sole entrepreneur had changed the product name, labeling it as “hot-smoked salmon” and affixing a new production date to the packaging. The client asked our assistance. We divided the efforts: while the client visited the stores where counterfeit products might have appeared and notified retail chains about the risks and the necessity to withdraw dangerous products from circulation, simultaneously documenting the facts of sample detection, our advocate bureau took over the legal aspects of the work.
The specialists at Aspectum. promptly gathered evidence of placing counterfeit food products into civil circulation. Based on this evidence, we drafted and sent a formal claim to the sole entrepreneur. Immediately after receiving the claim, the sole entrepreneur voluntarily removed the suspicious products from sale. As a result, our client managed not only to promptly stop the distribution of counterfeit products but also to obtain, through pre-trial settlement, the removal of the remaining counterfeit items from civil circulation by the infringer, as well as compensation for the losses incurred by the client in connection with this situation.
