DHAKA, March 1, 2021 (BSS) – The Bangladesh Standards and Testing
Institution (BSTI) has called on all electronic and print media and
manufacturers to refrain from misleading advertisement on carbonated
beverages.
BSTI issued a letter recently regarding this, said a press release here
today.
As per the letter, although the carbonated beverage is a mandatory product
of BSTI but the energy product like ‘Energy Drinks’ is not a mandatory
product of BSTI.
Bangladesh Standards (BDS) has not been formulated on energy drinks and
BSTI has not issued any Certification Marks (CM) license in favor of such
products.
Electronic and print media often broadcast a variety of interesting and
attractive advertisements on energy drinks– if you drink such products, you
can get super power– which is misleading.
Young people are more attracted to such advertisements and may face
various problems by drinking those.
Some reputed companies have taken the CM license from BSTI in favor of
carbonated beverage products and are advertising in various electronic and
print media in such a way as to motivate the consumers to adopt carbonated
beverages as energy drinks that is a form of dishonesty, the release added.