Mydin fined RM20,000 for selling certain type of toothpaste

 

Raja Azlan Raja Ismail and Roslizan Zin were accused of selling 209 boxes and 23 sets of toothpaste without health ministry notification at the company’s supermarkets in Taman Danau Kota and Kompleks Sinar Kota.

KUALA LUMPUR: 

A wholesale and retail chain company was fined RM20,000 by the magistrates’ court here today for selling toothpaste 

unnotified

 by the health ministry last year.

Magistrate Farah Nabihah Din meted out the sentence against Mydin Mohamed Holdings Bhd, represented by Raja Azlan Raja Ismail and Roslizan Zin, after they pleaded guilty to the charges.

The court ordered the duo to pay a fine of RM10,000 each, in default a year in prison if they fail to pay the fine. They paid the fine.

According to the first and second charges, both were accused of selling 209 boxes and 23 sets of toothpaste of various flavours without ministry notification at the company’s supermarkets in Taman Danau Kota and Kompleks Sinar Kota here at 11am on July 18, 2023.

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 of the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya health department.

Both accused were unrepresented. - FMT