Meeting to solve suspension of food import from Bangladesh

Agartala, Aug 6 (UNI) A joint high-level meeting will be held soon to find out solutions over the suspension of importing various food items from neighbouring Bangladesh, Health Minister Tapan Chakraborty said.

He said all imported food items from Bangladesh are tested in the state food testing laboratory regularly and no such tests were pending.

To solve the problem of importing food items from Bangladesh, which has been suspened since last few weeks, the minister said a joint high-level meeting with health department, education and customs would be held shortly to sort out the problem.

There is no obstruction to import food items from any part of the country but it is compulsory to examine its quality before the items were marketed. And this is the main responsibility of the customs, the minister said adding that earlier all such items would had been tested at Central Food Testing Laboratory in Kolkata but now the state has its own laboratory since 2002.

It may be mentioned here that no food items were imported in the state from Bangladesh because of its quality, on issue raised by the customs, Mr Chakraborty said.

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