The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has ordered the withdrawal from the market of 10 products, including five types of spices produced by Bombay Sweets, after laboratory tests found them to have failed to meet the required Bangladesh standards.
The BSTI has also issued show-cause notices asking why the licences issued for the products should not be cancelled.
The standards body advised consumers not to purchase the products found to be substandard.
The information was disclosed in a press release signed by BSTI Secretary Moinuddin Mia on Wednesday.
According to the release, the BSTI recently collected products from various companies as part of its regular surveillance programme and tested them at its state-of-the-art laboratories. While several products met the required standards, some brands of ghee, butter oil and spices failed the tests.
Laboratory tests found that Baghabari-brand ghee did not contain the required level of milk fat for a product marketed as ghee. Instead, the product was found to have been made with palm olein and vegetable fat and sold as ghee.
Meanwhile, Bombay Sweets’ spices were found to be below Bangladesh Standards (BDS) requirements on several parameters.
According to BSTI test results, five products manufactured by Bombay Sweets & Co Ltd — curry powder duck meat spice, tehari masala, kala bhuna masala, beef spice and fish spice — failed because their total ash and salt content exceeded the permissible limits under Bangladesh standards.
The other substandard products include Baghabari-brand ghee produced by Baghabari Premium Ghee Company; Arun Baghabari-brand ghee by Kishoreganj Food Products; New Radhuni-brand ghee and City-brand ghee by Messrs Mamun Food Product; and Elders-brand butter oil by Elders Food Products and Packaging Industries.
Tests found deviations from the required standards in several parameters of the ghee products, including refractive index, iodine value, saponification value and Polenske value.
BSTI Director General (Secretary) Kazi Imdadul Haque said maintaining product quality in accordance with national standards is the legal and ethical responsibility of every licensed manufacturer.
“If any company fails to fulfil this responsibility, BSTI is committed to taking necessary legal action,” he said, adding that the agency is continuing strict surveillance to prevent counterfeit and adulterated products alongside its certification activities.
The BSTI director general advised consumers to check the BSTI mark, licence number, production and expiry dates, ingredients and other relevant information before purchasing products.
Consumers have also been urged to report concerns about product quality, adulteration, fraud or misuse of the BSTI mark by calling the hotline at 16119 or emailing dg@bsti.gov.bd.
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