<i>Mobile court fines food co in Ctg </i>
A mobile court yesterday fined a food manufacturing company in Chittagong city Tk 1.5 lakh for using harmful textile dye and substandard ingredients in different food items, producing the products in an unhygienic environment, and marketing those using the label of the BSTI monogram illegally. During a visit to BSP Food Industries Ltd in Kalurghat, the court of Joynal Abdin, executive magistrate of Chittagong City Corporation, accompanied by Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) officials and police, found drums full of textile dye, food ingredients lying on the bare floor and in unhygienic conditions, and bread, among other items, being packaged by workers with bare hands. BSP Food produces chanachur, noodles, biscuits, pickle, vegetable sauce, and gawa ghee (butter oil) under the brand names "Cookme" and "Taaza". On October 15, the BSTI cancelled its licence for selling vegetable ghee in the name of gawa ghee. The company was asked to get the BSTI licence newly.
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