A BRADFORD businessman has been fined £15,000 after pleading guilty to selling illegal cosmetics, toys and household goods.
Ashvin Rana, 47, of Papa’s Cash and Carry, had been told by West Yorkshire Trading Standards (WYTS) to remove about 7,000 products from the shelves at his firm’s two premises in Leeds Road and Cottam Avenue, Listerhills, Bradford.
Products including air fresheners, glue, water pistols and colouring chalk were found to be lacking basic labelling information and failed to meet compositional requirements, Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ Court was told.
WYTS also said Rana had failed to have any dialogue with them after an investigation in February, and that he had failed to attend court three times for previous hearings. He was jailed in 2008 for selling dangerous children’s dummies.
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