Non-iodised salt sold freely in Tangail shops
Our Correspondent | Monday, 28 February 2011
Our Correspondent
TANGAIL, Feb 27: Non-iodised salt is being sold at different markets of 12 upazilas of the district. A large number of dishonest businessmen are engaged in selling of non-iodised salt posing a serious threat to the public health. Businessmen are earning maximum profit violating the government bans on selling of non-iodised salt. Sources said the salt traders are marketing their products by various techniques including colourful packet and trademarks of iodised salt manufacturing companies. In the year of 1994 the Bangladesh government enacted a law on producing and selling of iodised salt to meet the deficiency of iodine in human body. Under this law the government imposed the ban on production and sale of non-iodised salt at any place in the country.
TANGAIL, Feb 27: Non-iodised salt is being sold at different markets of 12 upazilas of the district. A large number of dishonest businessmen are engaged in selling of non-iodised salt posing a serious threat to the public health. Businessmen are earning maximum profit violating the government bans on selling of non-iodised salt. Sources said the salt traders are marketing their products by various techniques including colourful packet and trademarks of iodised salt manufacturing companies. In the year of 1994 the Bangladesh government enacted a law on producing and selling of iodised salt to meet the deficiency of iodine in human body. Under this law the government imposed the ban on production and sale of non-iodised salt at any place in the country.