Expiry-date tampering at cosmetics shop

A cosmetics shop has been found tampering the expiry dates on the packages of products sold there.

The matter came to light during a raid by law-enforcement officers of the Consumer Protection Department (CPD) at the Ministry of Economy and Commerce.

After receiving information from a government entity, the officers, in co-operation with security entities concerned, carried out a raid on the shop’s storehouse and detected the manipulation.

A  search and inspection revealed that the shop’s staff had dumped the original packages in a garbage container and replaced them with new ones with fake expiry dates. Some 7,200 such packages were seized.

When questioned by CPD officers, the manager-in-charge of the outlet admitted that he had instructed his employees to do so. The matter is under further investigation.