RM1.44mil in unregistered health products confiscated in Melaka this year


  • Nation
  • Tuesday, 19 Sep 2017

Datuk Dr Ghazali Othman. -Star filepic

MELAKA: The Melaka Health Department has confiscated 562 unregistered health supplements, cosmetics and traditional preparations worth approximately RM1.44mil in the first eight months of the year.

State Health Department director Datuk Dr Ghazali Othman said that 221 traditional preparations and 122 cosmetic products being sold without the approval of the Drug Control Authority (DCA) were found to be contaminated with toxins.

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