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POST TIME: 23 September, 2015 00:00 00 AM
Food factories fined Tk 1 lakh
BSS

Food factories fined Tk 1 lakh

RAJSHAHI: A mobile court has fined two food factories for manufacturing substandard foods in the city on Monday, sources concerned said yesterday, reports BSS. On a tip-off, Regional office of Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institutions (BSTI) conducted separate raids in Aroma Food Industries and Messer's Popular Food Industries in BSCIC Industrial Estate. During the raid the team found the factories manufacturing, possessing and selling substandard and unhygienic food items like cake, biscuit and vermicelli and running their business without BSTI license. The mobile court conducted by Executive Magistrate Shukla Sarker fined the factories Tk 50,000 each. The summery court also destroyed 100 liters of burnt edible oil of the factories instantly, said Mourtoza Hossain Shah, Director of BSTI.