Food manufacturer draws heavier fine upon appeal for flouting environmental laws


SHAH ALAM: A food manufacturer was ordered to pay a heavier fine of RM100,000 for violating environmental laws after a High Court here allowed an appeal in the case.

Sweet Home Candied Product Sdn Bhd, through its company director Tee Chee Wah, 43, had pleaded guilty last year at a Sessions Court to two counts of discharging industrial effluent beyond the permitted level into a watercourse near a food industrial park in Rawang on Feb 13 last year.

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