Taobao Flash Sale has announced its firm commitment to comply with relevant administrative penalty decisions issued by regulatory authorities. The platform stated it will conduct comprehensive inspections and resolutely address issues in line with food safety supervision requirements. It plans to continuously and routinely strengthen platform compliance and implement corrective measures, firmly eliminating conditions that enable gray and black market operations, thereby genuinely ensuring "safety on the tip of the tongue."

On April 17, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued administrative penalties against seven e-commerce platforms—including Shanghai Xunmeng Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Pinduoduo), Beijing Sankuai Technology Co., Ltd. (Meituan), Beijing Jingdong Sanbai Liushi Du E-commerce Co., Ltd. (JD.com), Shanghai Lazasi Information Technology Co., Ltd. (formerly Ele.me, now Taobao Flash Sale), Beijing Douyin Technology Co., Ltd. (Douyin), Zhejiang Taobao Network Co., Ltd. (Taobao), and Zhejiang Tmall Network Co., Ltd. (Tmall)—in a series of cases involving "ghost takeaway" operations. The penalties were imposed in accordance with Article 131 of China's Food Safety Law and Article 83 of the E-commerce Law.

The seven platforms have been ordered to rectify their violations, suspend new cake shop registrations for periods ranging from three to nine months, and pay combined fines and confiscations totaling 3.597 billion yuan. Additionally, under Article 75 of the Implementation Regulations of the Food Safety Law, legal representatives and food safety directors of the seven platform companies have been collectively fined 19.6874 million yuan.