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- 2017.11.15
Laundry Detergent Varies in Stain Removal, Whiteness & Colour Maintenance – Improvement Urged on Ingredients Disclosure on Label
Looking for a laundry detergent that can wash your clothes clean and white as new? The Consumer Council has put to test 34 laundry detergents and found a vast variation in their washing performance. Over one-third of the detergents scored only...
- 2017.11.15
Survey on Food Order Platforms Reveals Wide Variation in Price Mark-up of up to 86% and Improvement Urged to Enhance Delivery Service
Aggregate food order platforms have entered the Hong Kong market in recent years offering delivery service, in partnership with restaurants, for a variety of tasty takeaway from humble street food curry fishballs to fancy French cuisine for consumers...
- 2017.11.15
“Rational Consumption x Responsible Borrowing” Video Series - The Sugarcoated Loan Trap - Money Lending Intermediary
Quick and easy loan? Repay just by “min pay”? Watch out! Young consumers, with such an attitude in loan borrowing, may find themselves embroiled in debt one day. In collaboration with the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB), the...
- 2017.11.02
Rational Consumption Advocated for Young Adults: Avoid Falling Prey of Sugarcoated Loan Traps – Consumer Council & FSTB Join Forces in Production of Creative Online Videos
The market is flooded with loan advertising which target young adults, packaging attitude “supremacy of consumption” and “buy now, pay later” as the trendy value and lifestyle. Alongside with the proliferation of online purchase and...
- 2017.10.16
Car Crash Test Reveals Variation in Passenger Protection - AEB Strongly Proposed as Standard System to Provide Additional Safeguard
The past year saw a total of more than 16,000 traffic accidents in Hong Kong, including some 15% serious and 130 fatalities. Automobile manufacturers have, in recent years, strived hard to enhance their anti-crash performance for the protection of...
- 2017.10.16
Medium Moisturizing Performance but Vast Variation in Price and Inadequate Labelling in 10 Mineral-Oils Free Lip Balms
As the cool dry weather sets in, lip balm with good moisturizing effect could make all the difference in soothing the parched lips. Increasingly a variety of lip balm products are promoting to contain no mineral oil ingredients to ease consumers’...
- 2017.10.16
Prepackaged Chilled Fruit Juices Detected with Patulin Contaminant and Preservatives, and Low levels of Vitamin C and Dietary Fiber
Fresh, preservative-free, and rich in vitamin C and fiber. These are some typical claims of a proliferating variety of fruit juices including cold pressed juices that claim to even “detox”, driving health-seeking consumers to splurge willingly on...
- 2017.10.16
Problems Aplenty Besetting Private Columbaria Operation – Be Vigilant of Contract Details to Safeguard against Unlicensed Service
For years, with demand outstripping supply, the market has seen prices of private columbaria soaring into tens or hundreds of thousands, and the emergence of a large number of unauthorised columbaria. The Private Columbaria Ordinance which came into...