{"id":43483,"date":"2019-10-16T13:16:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T10:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=43483"},"modified":"2019-10-16T13:59:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T10:59:31","slug":"dealers-in-non-conforming-cosmetics-seek-out-of-court-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/dealers-in-non-conforming-cosmetics-seek-out-of-court-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealers in non-conforming cosmetics seek out-of-court settlement\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-43485\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SkincareProducts-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SkincareProducts-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SkincareProducts-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SkincareProducts-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SkincareProducts.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>By Betty Ndagire<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A businesswoman accused of vending cosmetics not fit for human use has intimated to court that she wrote to Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) to have her case settled out-of-court.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ms Maria Prossy Namwanje, the director of Sure Deal Products is charged with 5 counts ranging from applying the UNBS Quality Mark without permission and being in possession of commodities that do not conform to the compulsory standards and specifications set by UNBS.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">During a session presided over by the Standards Utilities and Wildlife Court magistrate, Ms Marion Mangeni, the accused through her lawyer Mr Ambrose Opira told court that she had written to UNBS requesting that they settle the matter out of court. However, no feedback has been received yet.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This is the second time Ms Namwanje is requesting to settle her case out-of-court; the first attempt was on February 27, this year but it failed to yield positive results.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Prosecution alleges that on February 2, 2018 at Sure Deal Beauty Centre, Mini Price in Kampala, Ms Namwanje illegally applied the UNBS Quality without permission on cosmetics weighing over 1,595kg and containing hydroquinone &#8211; a substance that is prohibited as its dangerous to the human skin.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Court has adjourned the matter to November 18 for hearing if the accused fails to negotiate with UNBS.<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Betty Ndagire A businesswoman accused of vending cosmetics not fit for human use has intimated to court that she wrote to Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) to have her case settled out-of-court. Ms Maria Prossy Namwanje, the director of Sure Deal Products is charged with 5 counts ranging from applying the UNBS Quality Mark without permission and being in possession of commodities that do not conform to the compulsory standards and specifications set by UNBS. During a session presided over by the Standards Utilities and Wildlife Court magistrate, Ms Marion Mangeni, the accused through her lawyer Mr Ambrose Opira told court that she had written to UNBS requesting that they settle the matter out of court. However, no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}