KATHMANDU: Bags containing Japanese rice marked packed year 2018 was found in the go-down at the Food Management and Trading Company.
The company was selling date expired rice at a time when a monitoring team of the Consumer Right Protection Committee of the metropolis arrived there on Sunday.
Some rice bags had date of packaging while several did not have any levels in the packets.
According to Narnath Adhikari, senior accounting officer of the company, the rice was provided by the Japanese government as food aid. The aid was received last December.
“This is a serious negligence on the part of government bodies”, Madhav Timilsena, Chairman of the Consumer Rights Research Forum said.
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