Illegal cosmetics chemicals trashed

25 June 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
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Government officials yesterday disposed of some 30 tonnes of chemical substances they said Chinese nationals had intended to sell illegally as cosmetics.

Long Sreng, deputy chief of the Interior Ministry’s anti-economic crime department, said authorities seized the chemicals – some of which already were falsely packaged under known brand names – in March during raids on a house and warehouse in Phnom Penh, where the smugglers were storing them. …

Following a court order, officials from the Ministries of Interior, Health and Commerce yesterday took the materials to the Boeung Choeung Ek disposal site on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.

There, they burned some and poured others into holes in the ground. …

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