60 verified laws filed under Commerce & Business, each checked against the statute and sourced.
Japan's 2008 'Metabo Law' genuinely requires employers and local governments to measure the waistlines of workers aged 40–74 annually. However, the popular claim gets one key fact wrong: it is employers and insurers — not individual employees — who face financial penalties for non-compliance.
The claim that South Korean law mandates employers provide employees with free ginseng supplements during winter months to boost immunity is false. No such statute exists in South Korean labor or employment law.
Dutch law prohibits selling any alcohol — beer, wine, or spirits — to anyone under 18. The fine for sellers is €1,360, not €100,000, and there is no longer a lower age tier for beer and wine.
Japan does require product-specific permits for vending machines selling alcohol, tobacco, milk, and cooked food, and machines universally display operator contact information. However, the claim that ALL vending machines must be 'registered with the local government' is incorrect — most common machines (sealed non-alcoholic drinks, frozen food, dry goods) require zero government registration.
Since July 8, 2021, it is illegal to sell energy drinks to anyone under 18 years of age in all retail locations across Belarus. Violators face administrative fines of up to 10 base units for a first offense.
A widely-circulated claim alleges that Luxembourg employers must legally provide at least one paid day off per month so employees can do household chores. No such law exists in Luxembourg's Labour Code or any other statute.
Hungarian building codes do require that rooms intended for prolonged human occupancy have direct natural lighting with a specific glazing-to-floor-area ratio. However, this is a construction standard enforced at the design and building stage — not a landlord-specific rental obligation carrying direct fines against landlords for existing tenancies.
Brunei does not ban pork sales outright, but strictly regulates them: pork and pork products may only be sold through licensed, non-Muslim-operated businesses with mandatory separation of storage and premises from halal food operations. Selling pork in any establishment holding a halal certificate — or without proper licensing — is a criminal offence.
Sri Lanka has a genuine law prohibiting the mutilation, defacement, or alteration of currency notes and coins, carrying penalties of up to Rs. 25 million and 3 years' imprisonment. However, the claim that it is 'similar to Thailand's currency law' is misleading — the two laws exist for entirely different reasons.
Venezuela's 2009 Law for the Prohibition of Violent Video Games and Toys banned the manufacture, import, sale, rental, and use of violent video games and toy weapons nationwide. Violators who sell or distribute can face 3–5 years in prison, while those who merely promote such games face fines of 2,000–4,000 tax units.
The claim that Tunisia bans importing or selling blue-colored clothing due to cultural protection laws is entirely false. No such national law exists. The confusion likely stems from a genuine 1915 heritage decree protecting the iconic blue-and-white architecture of the village of Sidi Bou Saïd — a law about paint on buildings, not clothes on bodies.
Morocco's Law No. 31-08 on Consumer Protection requires suppliers to inform consumers by marking, labelling and display, and its implementing decree makes Arabic the language of the mandatory label mentions, with foreign languages permitted alongside rather than instead. Breaching those consumer-information rules is punished by a fine of MAD 2,000-5,000 under article 173, not by the six-figure penalties the claim usually carries.