In my opinion, this fine method can't fundamentally solve the problem. The incident that a vendor in Yulin, Shaanxi was fined 66,000 for selling 5 Jin of celery caused a heated discussion on the Internet. Many netizens criticized the local practice after seeing this incident, which is really inappropriate. What happened was that a grain, oil and vegetable store bought 7 kilograms of celery. Because the local market supervision department needed to sample the vegetables, they handed in 2 kilograms of celery, and the remaining 5 kilograms of celery was bought by customers who came to buy food.

Later, the local market supervision department found that this batch of celery had not been sampled and showed unqualified. So they are required to issue purchase bills and inform the purchase channels. For the requirements of the market supervision department, the owner of the grain, oil and vegetable store said that he had lost the purchase bill and could not tell them the corresponding purchase channel. Therefore, the local market supervision department punished them for allegedly dealing in food exceeding the food safety standards. According to the food safety law, they imposed a fine of 66,000 yuan.

Faced with a huge fine, the owner of this grain, oil and vegetable store expressed great grievances. They said that there was something wrong with the celery they sold, and it was appropriate to accept the punishment, but the punishment was too strong. How many tons of celery does the shopkeeper say he wants to buy to earn back this 60 thousand yuan? For this matter, the director of the local market supervision bureau said that there was indeed some misconduct in the intensity of punishment. Judging from the practice of market supervision departments, their original intention is to ensure food safety in the market, but a fine of 66,000 yuan is really too high for small stall owners.

This huge fine has indeed played a punishment at the moment, but the purpose is that in the long run, this kind of behavior will only arouse the dissatisfaction of the stall owners, which is not beneficial to the subsequent market order. Therefore, this fine method can not fundamentally solve the problem. When punishing market operators again, we should consider their behavior and its consequences and punish them reasonably.