Rouge traders face the music

Amila Prabath Wanasinghe

A team of officers attached to the Anuradhapura Regional Health Services Office raided 30 shops which had kept food items unfit for human consumption for sale during the New Year season and arrested the owners for flouting consumer protection laws.

They also seized stocks of food items which were outdated or unfit for consumption.

These included 18 bags of rice (10 kgs each), 117 kgs of rotten dried fish, 140 litres of inferior oil of various brands and outdated flavouring, cadju and ground nuts etc.

A spokesman for the Regional Health Services Office said the traders were due to be produced before court.

Meanwhile, officers attached to the Health Service Office raided four beauty salons in Anuradhapura town and arrested their owners for running them in a manner harmful to the health of their customers.

They were produced before Anuradhapura Additional Magistrate Chandima Edirimanna and fined Rs 10,000 each.