BSTI bans 43 more products

Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has banned the sales, distribution, storing and commercial advertising of 43 more products of different brands, including Danish, Suresh, Promi and Pubali Salt.

All of the companies were also served with show-cause notices over their substandard items, said a BSTI release on Monday.

On 25 April last, the BSTI also banned 17 products of 12 companies asking them to refrain from selling, distributin, storing and commercial advertising of the products.

On the occasion of the month of Ramadan, the BSTI surveillance team collected a total of 521 product samples of different brands from various markets across the country and examined those in two phases.

In the first phase, the BSTI team confirmed 17 products as ‘substandard goods’ examining 251 samples out of total 521 collected in the last two months.

The team in the second phase found 43 other products as ‘substandard ones’ testing the remaining 270 samples.

The regulatory agency directed the companies to recall their goods from the market.