Heavy Metals: Sri Lanka to test imported food items

COLOMBO (News 1st) - Health Ministry noted that it has made arrangements to conduct tests to determine the existence of heavy metals in imported food items including rice.

The Director of the Environmental & Occupational Health and Food Safety Unit Dr.Thilak Siriwardana says that previously, selected food items had to undergo the testing process.

He further says that fifteen containers of rice were recently shipped back as they were unfit for human consumption.