Errant traders were fined Rs.1 42 million for selling outdated and expired goods to customers following 17,815 raids conducted by the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) countrywide from January to September this year.
They were produced before the Magistrate’s Courts and there were 1,594 cases against them for selling underweight bread, a CAA spokesman told the Sunday Observer.
He said nearly 552 supermarkets were raided and 234 hotel owners who sold stale food items to schoolchildren were also fined. Five-hundred more investigators would be recruited next year to expand the raids countrywide.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has instructed the CAA to intensify raids to protect the consumers. Sri Lanka is now self-sufficient in local eggs and there will be no need to import eggs, he added.
