Scrap low-grade food, legal notice says

A rights group today served a legal notice to authorities concerned asking them to seize or withdraw the substandard food products from the market in Bangladesh immediately.

Conscious Consumers Society (CCS) served the notice, requesting legal actions against those responsible for producing substandard food items which are harmful for health.

Barrister Shihab Uddin Khan served the legal notice on behalf of CCS saying that Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution has reportedly found 18 substandard food items and directed 47 food processors to give reason for violation of the relevant standard.

The food items include mustard oil, drinking water, vermicelli, turmeric, chili and curry powder, salt, ghee, flour, noodles and biscuits.

If the substandard products are not seized or withdrawn from the market immediately it will cause various disease and discomfort to consumers' and the condition will deteriorate day by day, the lawyer said in the legal notice.

He also requested to take legal action against the companies and food processors producing the substandard food items within 24 hours.

If the substandard products are not withdrawn, a writ petition will be filed with the HC for necessary order, the lawyer added in the legal notice.