More than 80 percent of the false eyelashes inspected by the Consumers’ Foundation are improperly labeled with misleading and unclear information about the country of manufacture, ingredients and expiry dates, the watchdog said.
Of the 16 false eyelashes that the foundation randomly selected from cosmetic shops, retailers and, 81.25 percent failed to comply with labeling regulations, with two of the products having completely blank packaging, it said.
Three samples did not have the required information about the product’s country of manufacture, but what is more worrying is that “some of the labels were deliberately misleading, claiming that the product was made in the ‘PRC [People’s Rebublic of China] (Taiwan-supervised)’, or saying that the product was designed by one company and manufactured by another,” which can mislead consumers about where the item was actually made, Consumers’ Foundation secretary-general Lei Li-fen (雷立芬) said.
Eight of the samples either lacked a detailed list of ingredients, or had it only in English, while four failed to print their manufacture and expiry dates, the organization said.
Consumers’ Foundation chairman Mark Chang (張智剛) said he was stunned by “the presence of unlabeled products in the market years after the promulgation of the Commodity Labeling Act (商品標示法).”
Article 15 of the act stipulates that importers or manufacturers of products that lack proper labels will be issued a warning by the authorities to make immediate corrections and will face a maximum fine of NT$200,000 (US$6,762) if they do not adhere to it.
“The government should rigorously enforce labelling regulations. The Consumers’ Foundation is a watchdog, not a law-enforcing entity — the protection of consumers’ rights and safety ultimately depends on the government,” he said.
Left-Handed Girl (左撇子女孩), a film by Taiwanese director Tsou Shih-ching (鄒時擎) and cowritten by Oscar-winning director Sean Baker, won the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution at the Cannes Critics’ Week on Wednesday. The award, which includes a 20,000 euro (US$22,656) prize, is intended to support the French release of a first or second feature film by a new director. According to Critics’ Week, the prize would go to the film’s French distributor, Le Pacte. "A melodrama full of twists and turns, Left-Handed Girl retraces the daily life of a single mother and her two daughters in Taipei, combining the irresistible charm of
A Philippine official has denied allegations of mistreatment of crew members during Philippine authorities’ boarding of a Taiwanese fishing vessel on Monday. Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) spokesman Nazario Briguera on Friday said that BFAR law enforcement officers “observed the proper boarding protocols” when they boarded the Taiwanese vessel Sheng Yu Feng (昇漁豐號) and towed it to Basco Port in the Philippines. Briguera’s comments came a day after the Taiwanese captain of the Sheng Yu Feng, Chen Tsung-tun (陳宗頓), held a news conference in Pingtung County and accused the Philippine authorities of mistreatment during the boarding of
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is pushing for residents of Kinmen and Lienchiang counties to acquire Chinese ID cards in a bid to “blur national identities,” a source said. The efforts are part of China’s promotion of a “Kinmen-Xiamen twin-city living sphere, including a cross-strait integration pilot zone in China’s Fujian Province,” the source said. “The CCP is already treating residents of these outlying islands as Chinese citizens. It has also intensified its ‘united front’ efforts and infiltration of those islands,” the source said. “There is increasing evidence of espionage in Kinmen, particularly of Taiwanese military personnel being recruited by the
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