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SC-STAY-BAN-MILKVITA
SC stays HC ban on Milk Vita for 8-week
DHAKA, July 29, 2019 (BSS) – The Appellate Division Chamber Court today
cleared way for producing, marketing, sale and consumption of Milk Vita
pasteurized milk as it stayed for eight weeks a part of the High Court order
that had banned pasteurized milk produced by 14 companies for the next five
weeks.
Justice Md Nuruzzaman Appellate Division Chamber Judge Court passed the
order, allowing a plea filed for Milk Vita against the July 28 High Court
order.
“But the ban will be in effect against pasteurized milk produced by other
13 companies,” Milk Vita counsel Mohiuddin Md Hanif Forhad told newsmen.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam today stood for Milk Vita, brand of
Bangladesh Milk Producers’ Co-operative Union Limited.
The High Court on July 28 banned producing, marketing, selling and
consumption of pasteurized 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 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.
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