5 cosmetic products with scheduled poisons banned
KUALA LUMPUR: The National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA), under the Ministry of Health (MOH), has cancelled the notification of five cosmetic products found to contain scheduled poisons. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the banned products are Sweet 13 Skincare Treatment Cream, Ninaskincare Skin Puteh Moisturiser and Skin Dessert Cream, each containing […]
Man shocked to find cobra near pet dog’s kennel
MIRI: A man is lucky to have escaped what could have been a potentially deadly attack. He was almost bitten by a cobra — an extremely poisonous reptile — while he was feeding his dog at his house yesterday. In the 7.15pm incident at Taman Spring Riam, the 35-year-old found a cobra coiled up at […]
Close encounter with cobra at home
MIRI: Several items that fell off a rack inside a storage room of a house in Jalan Permaisuri Bandar Baru Permyjaya here led to the discovery of a one-metre long cobra on Friday (Sept 4). According to Miri Civil Defence Force (APM) officer Captain (PA) Usman Harto, upon seeing several items mysteriously falling off from […]
Banned for high mercury content
KUALA LUMPUR: The health ministry has urged the public stop and avoid using nine different brands of cosmetic products that were found detrimental to health upon discovering that they contained scheduled poison, namely mercury and hydroquinone. Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, in a statement yesterday, said that these dangerous products are Deeja Cosmetics […]
Poisonous jelly fish recorded in four Terengganu beaches
SETIU: After Pulau Kekabu Beach in Marang, three more beaches in Terengganu have recorded findings of poisonous jelly fish which is also known as the Portuguese man o’ war (physalia cnidaria). Terengganu Fisheries Department director, Zawawi Ali said the three other beaches were Batu Buruk Beach, Kuala Terengganu, Rhu 10 Beach here and Bukit Keluang […]
