By Reuters Staff
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WARSAW, April 26 (Reuters) - Poland’s consumer watchdog fined Portuguese retail group Jeronimo Martins more than 60 million zlotys ($16 million) for labelling fruit and vegetables as grown in Poland when they were imported, it said on Monday.
The regulator UOKiK said consumers who made “patriotic” choices had been misled, at a time when the government has been encouraging Poles to buy Polish products to support the economy during the coronavirus crisis.
Jeronimo Martins, the owner of the Biedronka supermarket chain, said it would appeal the decision, saying it had “serious reservations” about the evidence gathered by the regulator.