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A shopkeeper has been sentenced for selling toxic skin lightening products
Posted 24 August 2018 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Consumer Goods and Services|London
UPDATES: Southwark's prosecution of a repeat seller of banned skin-lightening products has led to the first jail sentence of its kind, after online test purchases uncovered cosmetics containing dangerous levels of hydroquinone.
Southwark Council brought the prosecution against Mohammed Iqbal Bharodawala (45), a director of Jenny’s Cosmetics Ltd., when his company was discovered to be selling cosmetics containing the chemical hydroquinone, which has been banned in such products since 2001.
Hydroquinone can cause serious and irreversible skin damage as well as being harmful to the liver and nervous system.
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