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Troubles stick with AdMart

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Shop-from-home service AdMart is facing legal action over sticky labels on its cans of Coca-Cola - the retailer's third embarrassment in a week.

Company chiefs could find themselves punished for breaching labelling laws over use-by dates stuck on hundreds of thousands of cans.

The complaint, by the Health Department, is understood to concern the fact that Coke sold by AdMart has Malaysian-language labels on the cans.

Stickers in Chinese have been put on top for sale to the Hong Kong market, but they are believed to be legally insufficient.

A department source said the case was destined for the courts, although it could be months until the matter was heard. He said the maximum penalty was a $50,000 fine and six months' jail.

But AdMart president Wilson Chu Bun said yesterday: 'It's not a problem,' adding that the department had not ordered AdMart to stop selling the Coke and the company was working on ways to improve its labelling.

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