It is 2:30 pm on a Wednesday. Xidan, one of Beijing’s largest shopping areas, is swamped with trendy adolescents and 20-somethings all looking for the latest fashion in shoes, clothes and accessories at bargain prices.

Many of them are especially in the hunt for cosmetic contact lenses, a craze that made it to the mainland a few years ago.

The lenses are popular because they enhance the color of the iris, making the eye appear brighter or larger, and in some cases entirely changing its color.

Although unregulated, central authorities last month promised to reclassify the product to ensure those

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Seven people, four of whom ran optical shops, were charged on Monday over their involvement in the sale of counterfeit contact lenses – the first time the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) is pressing charges over such an offence.

The authorities have recovered 122 boxes of the lenses fraudulently labelled as FreshLook ColorBlends from Ciba Vision while

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Man fined for selling fake contact lenses
By Claire Huang |
Posted: 20 February 2012 1907 hrs

 

 

 
 
 

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SINGAPORE: A 52-year-old man on Monday pleaded guilty and was fined S$12,000 for selling fake contact lenses.

Wong Chow Fatt admitted to three charges relating to the purchase and supply of counterfeit contact lenses, between April and May last year.

He bought 30 boxes of fake “FreshLook ColorBlends” contact lenses from an

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SIBU: Cosmetic contact lenses, a hit among teenagers, are freely available at five-foot ways here, causing concern among parents that they might harm the eyes when used without professional advice.

A check with a stall revealed a pair of cosmetic lenses priced below RM30 that came in a gamut of colours.

The vendor claimed that the trendy lenses came from Hong Kong.

According to a Bernama report on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health had warned the public to refrain from buying the lenses from night markets or beauty shops which did not provide

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