Consumer Affairs Authority Had a Taken Into Custody A Stock Of Biscuit Packets Which Marked False Weight

The Consumer Affairs Authority had taken into custody a stock of biscuit packets which marked false weight during a raid carried out  at Point Pedro (Northern Province)and got a court order to remove the whole stock of above mentioned biscuit packets from the market according to the authority.

Accordingly the officials of the  Consumer Affairs Authority carried out the raid have detained a stock of biscuit packets which falsly marked 100 grammes for 80 gramme weight and 190 grammes for 180 gramme weight.

After producing the detained stock of biscuit packets to the court the biscuit manufacturing company  and the district sales agent of it in Point Pedro had been fined Rs.200,000 the consumer affairs authority has stated.