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| A selection of skin-whitening creams displayed at Central Market in Phnom Penh last year. Photo by Eleonore Sok |
Monday, 19 March 2012
Mom Kunthear
The Phnom Penh Post
Mam Seak became the second bride to die after using the Vietnamese product – branded Kim Lot Lanh Thom Cao Cap.
Kampong Speu Provincial Court has ordered a reinvestigation into the case of a 19-year-old wedding store owner who sold a banned skin-whitening cream that ultimately killed one of her customers in September, court officials said yesterday.
Ive Borin, Kampong Speu provincial judge, said that he did not announce a verdict against the skin-whitening cream suspect, planned for last Friday, because the court needed the cream’s laboratory report first.
“We need the results of the cream examination from the provincial exam committee in order to make sure that the cream did cause the user to die,” he said, adding that the suspect is still detained at the provincial prison.
Court officials said that they sent a letter to the committee to ask them to give the court advice on whether the skin-whitening cream can cause users to die or not.
Ive Borin said he needs the result as soon as possible because they cannot detain the suspect longer if the cream did not cause the user to die and the court will announce the verdict next month.
Kampong Speu provincial Examination Committee officials could not be reached for comment yesterday.
In September, bride-to-be Mam Seak, 21, and her 19-year-old sister Mam Srey Oun began using the skin-whitening cream at about 1pm on a Thursday.
Six hours later, they began having difficulty breathing and hearing.
By Friday morning, Mam Seak was dead.
The suspect, Lor Lyhour, who owns a wedding store in Oral district’s Trapaing Chhor commune, was arrested the same day Mam Seak died, and was charged with intentional murder and detained in the provincial prison.
Mam Seak became the second bride to die after using the Vietnamese product – branded Kim Lot Lanh Thom Cao Cap.
The product has been banned in both Cambodia and Thailand after another bride-to-be died in March 2010.
6 comments:
Cambodia is flooded with fake medicines and consumer products combine that with incompetent Cambodian officials and doctors. The outcome is deadly for Cambodian people!
if it caused death, don't use it, boycott it! very simple!
i think khmer people need to read the label for toxic chemical befoe they start using it. somebody need to education these people. some product cost allegic reaction, etc, you just have to know what you are allegic too because when we go to the hospital, the healthcare providers always ask the patients what they are allegic to, you have to know what you are allegic to whether seafood, peanut, certain kind of drug, chemical, bee, egg, etc, etc... so, know your own allegy. people in cambodia do need these education and it is the the healthcare people that should educate and inform them. didn't they teach you at school to know that sort of thing?
i say education everybody to know and understand this. stop being selfish, evil, hate, discriminate, prejudice, bias and so forth, ok!
educate the consumers!
Khmer women would do anything to be white. This ought to teach them a lesson at least for now. Frankly, I think they look more beautiful with dark or brown skin - more natural. When they put so much white cream or power on their faces, they tend to look like ghost or like Micheal Jackson. Hun San's wife is one good example. Imagine sleeping next to this fat bitch at night! Every time she turns to you, that would scare the shit out of you. You can easily lose 10-20 years of your life by simply sleeping next to her.
Mi Jrook mook kmouch should be sleeping in the pig style.
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