Illegal confectionery floods SL market: Leading confectioner warns

A rise in illegal confectionery products entering Sri Lanka’s local market is posing significant challenges for the legitimate businesses and creating health risks for the consumers, a top industry representative warns.

- By ISHAN SHERIFFDEEN

According to CBL Foods International, the market is gradually getting “flooded” by illegal confectionery products as there is widespread sale of such in all parts of the country.

“Most of these products are expired and do not even carry the basic nutrient content.

This is turning out to be a major challenge for companies like us engaged in legal and ethically bound businesses, adhering to government standards, regulations and paying the taxes and also poses health risks to the consumers,” CBL Foods International CEO and Director Kamal Geeganage told Mirror Business.