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Officers at Heathrow have intercepted counterfeit face masks and hand sanitizers
Posted 01 June 2020 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Counterfeit Goods|London
UPDATES: London Trading Standards teams at Heathrow have intercepted millions of sub-standard face masks and thousands of counterfeit hand sanitisers, exposing false safety claims and non-compliant pandemic supplies.
Trading standards teams at Heathrow Airport have stopped 6.5 million sub-standard face masks and 8,000 counterfeit hand sanitisers coming through the airport since the COVID-19 pandemic started, according to London Trading Standards (LTS).
LTS reports that the majority of masks seized had been labelled with false claims or fake safety certificates and around 4.25 million had to undergo la...
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