Consumer Protection Police raided a factory in Samut Prakan that was secretly producing cosmetics and churning over 1,500 kilograms of cream, preparing to sell at the market.

Consumer Protection Police (CPP) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officers used a search warrant from the Samut Prakan Provincial Court to search a warehouse in Samut Prakan Province after finding that someone had been using it as a place to manufacture illegal cosmetics without permission. Inside the warehouse, employees were found mixing and boiling cosmetic ingredients in a machine. Nearby, finished cosmetic products were found packed in cardboard boxes that were displayed as seasoning sauce to conceal inspection.

Pol. Col. Wiraphong Klaithong, Superintendent of the Consumer Protection Crime Suppression Division 4, revealed that the search found Ms. Lalita posing as the owner of the place, claiming to be the one who mixes and produces cosmetics because she graduated in chemistry. She has been doing this for 4 months, producin
g products according to orders. Customers then come to pick up the products to be filled with creams, depending on the brand, and sell them at the markets.

For this search, the police were able to seize SM cosmetic lotion products without registration numbers in plastic bags weighing 10 kilograms each, 50 bags of cream cosmetics waiting to be packed in plastic bags weighing 1,000 kilograms, soap products with false labels, sexual enhancement products for which no manufacturing registration information was found, more than 12,000 pieces, and production equipment, with a total value of more than 2 million baht, and prosecuted the owner of the place under the Cosmetics Act for a total of 4 charges, which are punishable by imprisonment not exceeding 6 months and a fine not exceeding 50,000 baht.

Source: Thai News Agency