Two food, beverage cos fined

Staff Correspondent
A mobile court of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) fined two food and beverage companies Tk 5 lakh and destroyed 10,000 cans of beer and 1,000 bottles of Mojo Light for illegally producing and selling the drinks. The mobile court fined Md Babul and Md Shamsuddin Helal, directors of Foyezuddin Food and Beverage at Babu Bazar in old Dhaka, Tk 1 lakh each and destroyed 10,000 cans of beer for producing those without taking Certification of Marks (CM) licence, says a BSTI press release. It also fined Akij Food and Beverage Brand Manager Ahmed Ali Hasan Tk 3 lakh for the same reason. It destroyed 1,000 bottles of Mojo Light kept at the depot of the company at Panthapath in the capital.