‘Imported milk powder is safe’

Imported milk powder is not adulterated with vegetable fat or any other, Acting Director General of Health Services Dr. S. C. Wickramasinghe said yesterday.

Dr. Wickramasinghe said anyone can obtain further information or clarification from the Director of the Environmental and Occupational Health on 0714429793 and from the Assistant Director of Food Control via 0714895660.

Dr. Wickramasinghe said the pre-shipment stringent testing of the exporting country and all the other tests done in Sri Lanka at the Sri Lanka Standards Institute (SLSI), Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Board, Food Laboratories of the Ministry of Health and the Industrial Technology Institute (ITI) have confirmed that the imported milk powder is safe.