Representatives of the "Suu" company milk and dairy products stuff producer and marketer gave Thursday a news conference to express a protest against orders issued by the city Songinokhairkhan district's Professional Inspection Agency about ceasing operations of their company.

If the factory is closed, 200 employees and 2,500 herder-suppliers will get in a extremely difficult position, they say. The agency has said the company should have taken permission before installing a new equipment. According to the company, all the equipment has a proper certification for technical use but the agency does not want to recognize it. The agency has charged the company with using in their ice creams ingredients "with expired dates". In response to it the company people said they stopped producing ice cream in November. "We are surprised by the charge leveled against us, as we even sent a request to the agency to destroy all these ingredients once we had stopped production. They have not replied and now they are making this ridiculous accusation like that," the officials said. "The agency has said that produced by us in January 12 yogurts had fungus. It is not true, for the laboratory tests did not corroborate the accusation," the representatives claim.

 

Source: Montsame

Feb 2, 2009