Consumers are expected to get better quality sweets, pressure cookers, LPG cylinders and microwave ovens as the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has brought these items under its mandatory certification rule.

Companies will have to get certification marks compulsorily for the products from the BSTI to sell them in Bangladesh, the BSTI said in a press release.

With these, total 37 products have been brought under the mandatory certification rule of the BSTI, a state-run agency.

The BSTI took the decision in a meeting of its council, its highest policy-making authority, at its headquarters in Tejgaon on Tuesday.

Industries Minister and BSTI Council Chairman Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun presided over it.

Other products include toothbrush, green tea, soya sauce, decorated cakes, malt-based food, malt drinks, cheeses, hair creams, face pack, glycerin toilet soap, liquid toilet soap, transparent toilet soap, bitumen and bituminous binders-polymer modified bitumen, UPS, clean cookstoves and cooking solutions, industrial safety helmets, jute bags, nonwoven whips, silk fabrics, synthetic mosquito nets, towels, lead-acid traction batteries, and single face motor.

Until now, BSTI has brought 239 products under the BSTI's mandatory quality certification marks, according to the BSTI.