The purpose of the control activity was to check whether sellers use unfair commercial practices by declaring misleading information on stones used in jewels and calling these stones “Czech garnets”.

In total 15 controls were performed in workplaces with this assortment. A part of all controls was a mystery purchase of jewels that were offered by the seller as jewels with Czech garnet. These collected jewels were transferred for examination to the Customs Technical Laboratory of the General Directorate of Customs. Out of 15 performed controls, in 13 cases offering and selling jewels with various stones (glass, gemstones, artificially produced cubic oxygens of zirconium or garnets of pyralmandin collection) were detected and these stones were not Czech garnets.

None of these jewels contained any garnet chrome pyropes, i.e. Czech garnet. In all 13 cases, administrative proceedings will be launched.

“With regards to the alarming results, we will subsequently continue in similar controls in the future,” said RNDr. Jana Příhodová, the Director General of the Czech Trade Inspection.