{"id":2486,"date":"2026-06-14T07:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:14:07","slug":"major-supermarket-in-kollupitiya-raided-over-illegal-food-labeling-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/06\/14\/major-supermarket-in-kollupitiya-raided-over-illegal-food-labeling-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Supermarket in Kollupitiya Raided Over Illegal Food Labeling Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A popular supermarket in the Kollupitiya, known for selling imported food items, was raided by special investigation officers of the Consumer Affairs Authority.<\/p>\n<p>During the inspection, officials discovered a large quantity of packaged food items being sold in violation of consumer protection laws. These products lacked essential mandatory information such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Importer details<\/li>\n<li>Maximum Retail Price (MRP)<\/li>\n<li>Batch number<\/li>\n<li>Production and expiry dates<\/li>\n<li>Ingredient lists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Authorities also found that many products carried only foreign-language labels, with no information in a language understandable to local consumers.<\/p>\n<h3>Investigation and Legal Action<\/h3>\n<p>A detailed investigation has been launched against the establishment, and strict legal action is expected to follow based on the findings.<\/p>\n<p>Officials warned that such practices mislead both local and foreign consumers, making it impossible for them to understand product quality or proper usage.<\/p>\n<p>They further emphasized that selling packaged food without mandatory labeling violates consumer protection regulations and poses a serious risk to public health.<\/p>\n<h3>Public Advisory<\/h3>\n<p>Consumers are urged to carefully check mandatory label information when purchasing packaged food items.<\/p>\n<p>The public can report such illegal activities by calling <strong>1977<\/strong>, the Consumer Affairs Authority hotline during working hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular supermarket in the Kollupitiya, known for selling imported food items, was raided by special investigation officers of the Consumer Affairs Authority. During the inspection, officials discovered a large quantity of packaged food items being sold in violation of consumer protection laws. These products lacked essential mandatory information such as: Importer details Maximum Retail &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}