DHAKA, July 28, 2019 (BSS) – The High Court (HC) today banned producing, marketing, selling and consumption of pasteurised milk produced by 14 companies approved by Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) as traces of harmful substances including lead were found in those.
A High Court division bench comprising Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed and Justice Md Iqbal Kabir passed the order after scrutinising reports on testing milk samples in four different laboratories.
The High Court on July 14 had ordered authorities concerned to test pasteurized milk samples in laboratories of National Food Safety Laboratory, laboratories of Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), and Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute within a week to detect contamination including presence of antibiotics.
“The High Court has ordered to stop producing, selling, marketing, buying and consumption of pasteurized milk produced by 14 BSTI-approved companies for five weeks. After this order, there is no scope of selling pasteurized milk in the country for five weeks. The court also issued a rule on suo moto in this regard,” Barrister Anik R Haque, who moved a writ in this regard, told newsmen.