BANGKOK, Feb 4 — Thailand's Department of Special Investigation (DSI) made unscheduled inspections of dietary supplement factories and found impure ingredients within the products, under-standard food, and exaggerated advertisements, among substances with a total value of over Bt100 million.
DSI Director Suwana Suwanjuta, together with DSI's office of Technology and Information, reported their examinations of two dietary supplement factories, Mezo Enterprise in Lad Prao district, and Sukrit Co, Ltd in Sumut Sakorn province, where they confiscated evidence worth Bt45 million from both factories, and found that the companies' products do not match their registration numbers and their nutrition facts were falsely stated.
The product sales of the companies amount to around Bt600 million annually, which the DSI would use to gather further evidence to investigate their tax payments to reveal any other illegal activities.
Meanwhile, the DSI chief said deeper investigations into the factory and the various markets where the products were sold revealed that both companies had evaded legal processes of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well violationing the Computer Act of BE 2550.
DSI is currently gathering more evidence by inspecting each ingredient thoroughly to find further proof which could expand the arrest to others connected to the group. (MCOT online news)
