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Month: March 2011

Month: March 2011

Toxic black henna dyes

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Henna, a 9,000 year-old South Asian and Middle Eastern tradition of painting the body, has found its way to the mainstream. Henna tattoos have been spotted on everyone from singing divas to movie stars to spring breakers. Henna is also used to dye hair. Though the popularity of the body art rises, information surrounding it does not. Few realise that a form of henna, called "black henna," can...
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Red lipstick spreads the lead

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Some of the red lipsticks manufactured in the United States and used daily by millions of women contain high levels of lead, according to new product tests commissioned by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a nonprofit coalition. The tests for lead in lipstick were conducted by an independent laboratory over the month of September on red lipsticks bought in Boston, Hartford, Connecticut, San...
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Cancer warning needed for talcum powder

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The Consumers association of Penang (CAP) calls on the Ministry of Health to place a warning on cosmetics containing talc. Talcum powder has been directly used on the skin as an effective absorbent to help deodorise and for imparting a silky touch. The primary component in talcum powder is magnesium silicate hydroxide (commonly known as talc). Talc is the main ingredient in baby powder, medicated...
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Soft-soled rubber clogs: A hazard to children

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Reports are surfacing that young people wearing soft-soled clogs are getting their toes caught in escalators. A popular brand of these clogs known as Crocs appears to be often implicated in these reports. In 2007, the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) received a complaint from a mother who informed us that her 4-year-old son’s Crocs shoe was swallowed up into an escalator after slipping...
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Restrictive trade practices in a free market

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WE practice a free market system, but how free and competitive is it? So what if the industries are dominated by a few players? What is wrong with that? When there is less competition, the players in the market will be able to dominate it and fix high prices for their goods and services. It works to the company's advantage that there is no or very little competition. Where there is competition...
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Unfair trade practices should be made illegal

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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Often sellers of goods or services use unfair methods to get consumers to buy their goods or sign up for their services. Consumers have at one time or another been put under pressure by the sales person to buy a product or sign a contract of service. Consumers too have been misled about the price or quality of the product or services...
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Consumers deserve a No-Fault Liability Motor Scheme

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The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) welcomes the announcement by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) that it will be consulting all relevant stakeholders next month before presenting the proposed new third party bodily injury and death scheme to the government. In August 2007, the Attorney General’s Chambers issued a Preliminary Issue paper proposing that a No-Fault Liability Scheme (NFL) be...
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Motor insurance – let the Govt take over

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Many comments have been made about CAP's proposal for a no-fault liability scheme in relation to motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), and regarding the proposed scheme by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM). CAP wishes to set the record straight regarding its stand on the proposed BNM scheme as well as respond to the comments made. Very little is known about the proposed scheme by BNM, but from various...
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Shutdown co-ops that are agents of moneylenders

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Cooperatives that are nothing more than agents of moneylenders should be shut down by the Malaysia Cooperatives Societies Commission (MCSC). The MCSC cannot and should not condone such an activity, whether legal or otherwise. We have received complaints about one such cooperative which has no qualms about using unethical methods to get its members to sign up for loans with a licensed moneylender....
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Bank Negara’s role in creating more credit card debt

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No More Automatic 20-day Interest-Free Period for Credit Cardholders Credit card debts will increase when the 20-day interest-free period (the grace period where purchase will not be charged interest) will no longer be automatically enjoyed by all cardholders. Interest Free No More Cardholders have been informed that from  1 July 2008 (for one bank it is 1 May 2008), only those  who make full...
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