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| 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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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Principal Magistrate Ko Wai-hung, but the prosecution had earlier withdrawn the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.
