FTI says 40% of cosmetic products and food supplements in the market are counterfeits 

By Thai PBS

 

 

The Federation of Thai Industries (FDI) says 40% of  food supplements and cosmetic products sold in the markets were found to be fake and contaminated.

 

Disclosure by the FTI’s food supplements industry club came after police and officials from the Food and Drugs Administration raided several major manufacturing plants and found huge cache of substandard and fake cosmetic and food supplements.

 

Some products were even found to be contaminated as they used a same substance or precursor that is used to produce “meths”. The club president Mr Nakan Tawichawat said the FTI’s food supplements club has held talks with the FDA on a possibility to interpret the selling of fake food supplements with ingredient of medication used in Viagra as selling fake medicines which carries hefty penalties.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/fti-says-40-cosmetic-products-food-supplements-market-counterfeits/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-04-26

What a surprise in the hub of counterfeit products.

It's been that way for years. 

 

 

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