Mobile court fines two sweet factories in Ctg
Sweetmeats being dumped into a drain by officials of a mobile court of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution and Chittagong City Corporation yesterday after those were found being made in unhealthy and unhygienic conditions in two food shops in Moddhom Rampur of Halishahar in Chittagong city.Photo: STAR
A mobile court in Chittagong yesterday fined two sweet manufactures Tk 1.5 lakh for making sweets items in unhygienic environment, using non-food graded colour and selling those with the logo of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) without its approval. The court fined New Model Food Products Tk 1 lakh and Mishti Mukh Tk 50,000, while members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) destroyed unhygienic sweets worth around Tk 10,000. A team of the Rab-7 led by Sub-Inspector Syed Bashir Ahmed and KM Hanif, assistant director at BSTI in Chittagong, assisted the court during the drive.
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