Cosmetics manufacturing factory sealed off

RAJSHAHI: A mobile court yesterday sealed off a cosmetics manufacturing factory named Madona Special Care in Puthia upazila.

The mobile court was jointly conducted by BSTI, Rajshahi Regional office and Puthia upazila administration. However; Nuruzzaman, UNO of Puthia, who led the drive, said they seized the factory's all products, equipment and raw materials and will soon withdraw all products those which are already in markets.
He further said that they received several complaints from a number of consumers that Madona Special Care, which were mainly skin-whitening cream and lotion, were causing them skin diseases.
“Based on those complaint, we collected samples of the products from the market tested them and found a huge presence of Mercury (Hg) chemicals, which is very hazardous for human skin”, Nuruzzaman added.   
Nurul Islam, Deputy Director (CM) of BSTI, Rajshahi Regional office, who accompanied the mobile court, said they collected some samples from there and sent it to BSTI and Bangladesh Atomic Energy Centre for lab-test. 
“After getting the lab-test result of those chemicals, the action will be taken against of the owner of the cosmetics manufacturing factory”, Islam added. 

Cosmetics manufacturing factory sealed off

RAJSHAHI: A mobile court yesterday sealed off a cosmetics manufacturing factory named Madona Special Care in Puthia upazila. The mobile court was jointly conducted by BSTI, Rajshahi Regional office and Puthia upazila administration. However; Nuruzzaman, UNO of Puthia, who led the drive, said they seized the factorys all products, equipment and raw materials and will soon withdraw all products those which are already in markets. He further said that they received several complaints from a number of consumers that Madona Special Care, which were mainly skin-whitening cream and lotion, were causing them skin diseases. Based on those complaint, we collected samples of the products from the market tested them and found a huge presence of Mercury (Hg) chemicals, which is very hazardous for human skin, Nuruzzaman added. Nurul Islam, Deputy Director (CM) of BSTI, Rajshahi Regional office, who accompanied the mobile court, said they collected some samples from there and sent it to BSTI and Bangladesh Atomic Energy Centre for lab-test. After getting the lab-test result of those chemicals, the action will be taken against of the owner of the cosmetics manufacturing factory, Islam added.