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DCGI Asks Amazon And Flipkart To Stop Selling Fake Cosmetics After Raids On Others Yield Rs 4 Crore In Illegal Goods
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In a meeting with officials of India’s premier drug and cosmetics agency, Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), Flipkart had Amazon have agreed to prevent the sale of ‘unregulated and fake cosmetics’ on their shopping platforms, as reported by Mint.
This commitment by the online retailers comes after an investigation found that a few resellers were selling illegally-imported cosmetic products.
The investigation also found that some of the sold products like “stem cell-based cosmetics, serums, skin whitening creams, glutathione injections and hyaluronic acid filler injections” had ingredients that were not certified for human use.
“They have been told to start correcting their system. They are going to delete all such products from their sites and are also going to have different agreements with sellers to prevent sale of fake cosmetics,” S Eswara Reddy, an official with the DCGI said.
The DCGI conducted raids at 30 different locations across the country and seized items worth Rs 4 crore that did not conform to the standards laid down by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).
The regulator had sent notices to Flipkart, Amazon and IndiaMart, asking them to stop the sale of such spurious products on their platforms. It had given them 10 days to respond, failing which, penal action will be necessitated.
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