The Department of Trade and Industry is checking reports of the possible sale of substandard helmets in Dumaguete stores.
The possibility surfaced after the posting of a video on YouTube last January 23 showing a man, presumed to be a worker in a local department store, pasting what looked like Import Commodity Clearance (ICC) stickers on the back of the helmets before placing them on the display racks.
Javier Fortunato Jr., provincial director of the DTI for Negros Oriental, said he has yet to see the video and could not immediately tell if the act of pasting the stickers on the helmets was illegal or not.
“Importers of helmets give ICC stickers to the retailers and it is now the retailers’ job to place the stickers on the helmets,” Fortunato told the Dumaguete MetroPost.
Fortunato said that the task of determining if the ICC sticker on a helmet is genuine or fake could be with the Land Transportation Office, if they have the means to do so.
He said the ICC stickers for crash helmets are different from the ICC stickers found on other imported items.
