Staff Reporter :
The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) on Tuesday submitted a test report to the High Court saying that it found 10 companies’ bottled and jar water unsafe.
In the report, the BSTI said that it announced sanctions on production and selling of bottled and jar water of those companies.
According to the report, the BSTI had suspended licences of seven companies and cancelled those of the remaining three companies.
The brands of which licenses have been cancelled are Ananda Plus (jar) of Ananda Food and Beverage; Real First (jar) of Real Food and Beverage and Best One of Best One Drinking.
The brands of which licenses have been suspended are Canny (jar) of Safe International; Aqua Mineral (bottle) of Sinha Bangladesh Trade Limited; Alma (bottle) of AST Beverage Limited; SFB (jar) of M/S Crystal Food and Beverage; Osma (jar) of M/S Eurotech Trade and Technology; Epic (jar) of Unity Agro Beverage and Yummy Yummy of Fruits and Flavours; according to the BSTI report.
Licences of Best Drinking Water which produce Best One (jar), Ananda Food and Beverage which produce Aananda Plus and Real Food and Beverage which produce Real First (jar) have been cancelled.
The BSTI submitted the list in response to the court’s directive to inform it by February 24 about what action was taken against the five companies for marketing unsafe drinking water.
The bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil after hearing a public interest litigation writ petition of Supreme Court lawyer Shammi Akther directed BSTI to test the bottled water sold across the country and submit the findings.
The bench has also instructed Bangladesh Food Safety Authority to submit a report on what actions they have taken for food adulteration.
