KUALA LUMPUR: A wholesale and retail chain company was fined RM20,000 by the magistrate's court here today for selling cosmetics without notification from the Health Ministry last year.
Magistrate Farah Nabihah Muhammad Din meted out the sentence against Mydin Mohamed Holdings Bhd, represented by Raja Azlan Raja Ismail, 40, and Roslizan Mohd Zin, 50, after they pleaded guilty to the two charges.
The court ordered both individuals to pay a fine of RM10,000 each in default of one year in prison if they fail to pay the fine.
They paid the fine.
According to the first and second charges, both individuals were accused of selling 209 boxes and 23 sets of toothpaste of various flavours without the ministry's notification at the company's supermarkets - in Taman Danau Kota, and Kompleks Sinar Kota, here - at 11 am, on July 18 last year.
Both charges were framed under Regulation 18A(1)(a) of the Control of Drugs and Cosmetics Regulations 1984.
The prosecution was conducted by prosecuting officer Siti Nur Sarahidah Jayatan from the Pharmacy Services Division, Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya Health Department while both accused were unrepresented. — BERNAMA