Melamine-free brands still off shelves
Traders are now awaiting a decision from the High Court (HC) before restarting display and sales of five brands of powdered milk, which the government on Monday declared melamine-free after tests at home and abroad.
The five brands are Dano, Red Cow, Diploma, Anlene and Nido fortified instant.
The declaration followed tests of eight brands of powdered milk at the laboratory of the Bureau of Quality and Safety of Food in Bangkok and at the laboratories of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission and Bangladesh Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
Three brands -- Yashili-1, Yashili-2 and Sweet Baby-2 -- were found contaminated with melamine. These Chinese brands were earlier banned because these had no registration with the Institute of Public Health and Nutrition.
Meanwhile, following a writ petition by Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh, an NGO, the HC on October 23 ordered stopping sales and display of all the eight brands until receipt of the test results from Bangkok.
Later, the law enforcers seized and destroyed a substantial quantity of these powdered milk from shops for not complying the HC order.
"Distributors have asked us not to sell these brands because of the court order," said Nazrul Islam, a retailer at Karwan Bazar in the capital.
Health Adviser AMM Shawkat Ali on Monday said the government would now inform the court about the test results. An official of the commerce ministry yesterday said the test results were not be submitted to the court until yesterday.
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