At a meeting of the ministerial subcommittee on COL yesterday (30), chaired by minister Ravi Karunanayake, Tennakoon said the PHIs who had released details of the raid to the media should be ‘tied up.’
It was this same ministerial subcommittee that had decided on August 08 to use as animal feed the rice stocks unsuitable for human consumption.
On the following day, Tennakoon brought a group of rice mill owners to a workshop of Consumer Affairs Authority’s raiding unit officers, and asked the officers not to act against those mill owners.
However, police and officials of the Polonnaruwa PHI’s office raided a rice mill at Gallella on August 27 and seized 365,000 kilos of Naadu imported from India in 2014.
The mill had been changing the expiry date, from September 2016 to February 2017, and repacking the rice in packs given by the CWE.
At the time of the raid, there were 10 CWE lorries at the mill, which had loaded the about-to-expire rice stocks.
Industries ministry secretary T.M.K.B. Tennakoon has criticized the PHIs of Polonnaruwa who had raided a rice mill that had been preparing rice declared as animal feed, to be released for human consumption.
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