Pusti fined Tk 7.5 million for rebottling expired edible oil

A RAB mobile court has fined the owner of Pusti soybean oil Tk 7.5 million for refilling new bottles with edible oil that was recalled from the market after expiry.

Magistrate Sarwoer Alam led a drive on Pusti producer Super Oil Refinery Limited’s factory at Siddhirganj in Narayanganj near Kanchpur Bridge on Sunday.

The Rapid Action Battalion and Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution conducted the drive jointly from 12pm to 9:30pm, he said.  

Workers were seen filling up new bottles with expired oil, Sarwoer told bdnews24.com.  

About 80 percent of the chemicals used in the factory’s quality control lab were also found to have expired years ago, he said.

“It’s truly unbelievable and pathetic!” the magistrate wrote in a Facebook post.

Last Thursday, BSTI said it had identified 18 substandard food products of 52 brands, including Pusti mustard oil of Shabnam Vegetable Oil Industries Limited, in an operation ahead of Ramadan.

TK Group of Industries owns the Pusti brands and its factories. 

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