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Company fined $8,000 for making over 400,000 masks without a licence

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After a mask manufacturer was featured on a Channel 8 television show, the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) investigated the company and found that it did not have a licence to make masks. First N-Lab

A search of its website revealed that it was advertising that the masks were made in Singapore and had a bacterial filtration efficiency of 99 per cent.

The medical devices branch learnt that the company did not have a licence to make masks and notified HSA's enforcement branch after the company failed to provide any substantial response and its directors passed on HSA queries to one another.

 

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Company fined $8,000 for making over 400,000 masks without a licenceFirst N-Lab was investigated after being featured on a Channel 8 television show. Read more at straitstimes.com. Shouldn't the question also be asked whether the masks manufactured met the Ministry of Health's medical standards. If they did, then the licence requirement is a mere bureaucratic omission. The bureaucrats are penalising the company for their own little thrills.
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