The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) have warned that the usage of home use illegal COVID-19 test kits could lead to the spread of the disease.
HSA is currently clamping down on such illegal kits and products. Till date, 1,600 warning letters have been issued to sellers. Further to that, more than 1,700 products listings have been taken down.
“Consumers should be aware that there are no HSA approved home-based test kits; no health supplements or herbal remedies, and no consumer devices approved for COVID-19 diagnosis or treatment,” said Associate Professor Chan Cheng Leng, group director of the health products regulation group, HSA.
“Not only do consumers waste money on these unproven remedies, they may put themselves and people around them at unnecessary risk due to the false sense of security.”
Sellers who falsely advertise products as preventing or treating COVID-19 face up to 12 months’ jail and a fine of up to S$20,000.