A mobile court fined a bakery Tk 50000 for using adulterated edible oil in Iftar items at I%tenga in the port city yesterday

Sources said the mobile court conducted by Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) Magistrate Mohammad Munir Chowdhury in a dt^ve at afactoryofMoon Bakery and Confectionery at Patenga on Sunday seized samples of different Iftar items and sent those to Bangladesh Standard Testing Institute (BSTI) for laboratorytest.

BSTI test report yesterday confirmed that adulterated palm oil was used in the seized Iftar items.

Free fatty acid and iodine were found as 0.81 percent,and 5 percent above the tolerable limit in the palm oil, sources said.

The melting point of the palm oil was found 12 percent more than the tolerablelimit.

On receiving the report, the CPA Magistrate summoned die bakery aiftboriticsandrcalisedTk50000.

The court yesterday seized lOKgof adulterated palm oil from the bakery and damaged those.

Ilie bakery has been nuuiing for long and producing huge amount of confectionery items,usingadultcrated palm oil and delivering those in Patenga, Steel Mill, Bandar and Kathgar areas posing serious hazard to public health, added the sources.