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BSTI to launch special anti-adulteration drives

Star Business Report
The national standards body will conduct special drives across the country to prevent sales of adulterated food during Ramadan, Industries Minister Dilip Barua said yesterday.
“The BSTI will work with mobile courts at the district and upazila levels to impose fine on wrongdoers in the food business throughout Ramadan,” the minister told journalists at a press conference at his secretariat office.
The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) in association with the deputy commissioner of Dhaka will deploy four mobile courts each day in the capital during the fasting month to
check food adulteration, said Barua.
Some dishonest traders mix chemicals and other harmful elements in drinking water, edible oil, fruits, dates, puffed rice, juice and other popular Iftar items as their demand rise sharply during Ramadan, he said.
Although chemicals are dangerous to human health, a section of unscrupulous businessmen uses those to make a huge profit, he added.
Since May 21, the BSTI has conducted 72 drives and confiscated 39.28 tonnes of different seasonal fruits, including 35.25 tonnes of mangos and 2.50 tonnes of bananas, as traders used harmful chemicals with those, he said.
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The minister urged all to carry out a social movement against the unscrupulous businessmen, who mix harmful chemicals with essential products.
“We want to turn the antiadulteration drive into a social movement,” said Barua.
The government alone cannot create the social movement, said the minister. "For this, all stakeholders, including producers, sellers and customers, will have to come forward."
Barua said he has already instructed the BSTI officials to form surveillance teams if magistrates arc unavailable for conducting drives.
Last year, the BSTI conducted 1,304 drives, formed 660 surveillance teams, filed 1,764 cases and fined around Tk 3.56 crore, said the minister.
KH Masud Siddiqui, industries secretary, and AK Fazlul Ahad, director general of the BSTI, were also present.