Underarm whitening cream costs DH $5,000 in fines

 

The product that put Filipina in legal trouble

A Kowloon City court has fined a domestic helper $5,000 after she pleaded gulty to selling an unregistered pharmaceutical product.

Filipina F. Amores, 37 years old, was arrested on Sept. 3 last year at the Argyle Street playground in Kowloon while she was selling one box of the 88 Total White Underarm Cream, a substance which was not registered with the Pharmacy and Poisons Board

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The Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance prohibits any person from selling, offering for sale or distributing or possessing for the purposes of sale, distribution or other use any pharmaceutical product or substance unless the product or substance is registered with the Board.

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Amores originally faced three charges before Acting Principal Magistrate Ko Wai-hung, but the prosecution had earlier withdrawn the charge of unlawful sale of Part 1 poison, which was an ingredient of the ‘’88 Total White Underarm Cream” she was selling.

The complaint, filed last Sept. 4 by the Kowloon City Police, did not specify the poison in question.

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In today’s hearing, the prosecution also withdrew the charge of breach of condition of stay, which was filed by police after investigation showed that Amores was a domestic helper, and is prohibited from going into business by the Immigration Ordinance.

She was accused of selling the product through the internet site Carousell.