{"id":1087,"date":"2025-03-05T12:31:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T07:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thulirvu.com\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2025-03-05T12:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T07:01:47","slug":"contaminated-unsuitable-coconut-oil-in-the-local-market-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Contaminated unsuitable coconut oil in the local market &#8211;  Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contaminated coconut oil which is unsuitable for human consumption has entered the local market, Minister of Trade Wasantha Samarasinghe told Parliament today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Importers are engaged in getting unrefined coconut oil and selling them in the local market,&#8221; the Minister said in response to a question raised by MP Chaminda Wijesiri in the House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some importing companies have ceased to exist in 11 months after earning substantial revenue,&#8221; the Minister also revealed.<\/p>\n<p>He said Consumer Protection Act will be amended and thus strong rules and regulations will be brought to prevent scams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contaminated coconut oil which is unsuitable for human consumption has entered the local market, Minister of Trade Wasantha Samarasinghe told Parliament today. &#8220;Importers are engaged in getting unrefined coconut oil and selling them in the local market,&#8221; the Minister said in response to a question raised by MP Chaminda Wijesiri in the House. &#8220;Some importing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"category-breaking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}