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450 tonnes ‘date-expired’ powdered milk seized

Staff Correspondent, etg
Customs authorities seized 450 tonnes of suspected date-expired powdered milk at Chittagong Port on Thursday.
The powdered milk worth over Tk 12.58 crore imported by Abul Khaer Milk Products of Abul Khaer Group did not have any manufacturing or expiry dates. They did not have any radiation certificate either, sources said.
Customs officials of the Audit Investigation and Research (AIR) branch opened five of the 18 containers while they were being offloaded at the port. The officials carried out physical examination and found none of the 25-Kg sacks has manufacturing and expiry
dates.
The stickers believed to have the expiry date on them were seen as torn off, sources said.
The powdered milk imported against five Bill of Entries arrived at Chittagong Pon by three ships from Malaysia on Wednesday.
The customs authorities will open the rest 13 containers of the consignment for physical examination in presence of the representatives of the taskforce, importer, C&F agent Shaikat TYading and the PSI company concerned Bureau Varitus today, said the sources.
Officials of Customs AIR branch said they informed the higher authority of the matter and sent samples of milk powder for radiationtest.
Decision on the fate of the powdered milk will be taken following the test reports, said AIR Preventive Officer Habibur Rahman while talking to this correspondent yesterday.
But officials of Abul Khaer Group and C& F agent concerned claimed they received report of the radiation test in their favour.
However, the customs officials said even if the radiation test report comes in their favour, the importer and others like the PSI company can not escape action for violating import rules.
Sources said, the milk powder imported against five Bill of Entries had Australia as the country of origin. But its shipment was made FROM PAGE 16
from Malaysia while the preshipment inspection (PSI) was done in Singapore.
Bureau Varitus in the CRF (Clean Report Finding) of the preshipment inspection showed November 2007 as the manufacture date and November 2009 as the time of expiry.