Chewing gum sauce at Slave Island

Chewing gum sauce
at Slave Island

Sri Lankan food producers seem to be interested in indulging in new experiments from time to time. Production of maalu paan minus fish has been in Sri Lanka now for over decades. Cheese kotthu without cheese is so very popular in Colombo now. It is Sri Lanka that discovered the technical production of sauce using a type of cheap gum used for creating chewing gum. For this purpose, an artificial chemical has been used instead of tomatoes, and the sauce has been produced in this way in great swing. If any food is produced in a manner which does not give a real tomato taste, it would be difficult to attract customers to fast food outlets. Therefore, instead of using good quality expensive sauce, they have shown an interest in bringing down chewing gum sauce as an alternative for tomatoes from fast food outlets.

After receiving complaints from consumers, the Consumer Services Authority managed to take into custody 2000 litres of sauce prepared from material injurious to the body from a production centre in Slave Island recently.

Further, 1000 kilos of chillies produced by using batik dyes were taken into custody at the same premises in the process of production itself, it is reported. It was also reported that the raided premises was a highly contaminated place and other than the preparation of food, the foul odour emanating from the place was not even fit for human dwelling.

The said premises has now been sealed and the Consumer Authority would be taking steps to arrest those responsible for operating the premises.