Deer velvet supplement company cops $200k fine for mislabelling

Deer velvet supplement company cops $200k fine for mislabelling
Brent Melville
An Invercargill health supplement firm has been fined almost $200,000 for selling $5 million worth of mislabelled deer velvet supplements endorsed by New Zealand golfer Bob Charles.Gateway Solutions, which formerly traded as Silberhorn, was fined $194,400 in the Dunedin District Court earlier this month for deliberately selling a range of health supplements with less deer velvet than described on the product labels, replacing it with manufacturing aid, carob. The firm's director and majority shareholder Ian Carline will pay a...

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