Bangladesh News

The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) will cancel licences of All Way Trading Company and Mou Enterprise for marketing Chinese baby milk formulas before getting clearance they applied for.

Meantime, an inter-ministerial meeting decided to not release any new milk-powder consignments from port before the BSTI reports on whether any of the 36 samples it collected Saturday is contaminated with melamine.

BSTI Director General Azmal Hossain said they will publish their findings in a week.

“We hope to find a way to detect the presence of melamine in milk in a day or two in association with the chemistry department at Dhaka University,” he said.

He said they will cancel licences of the two importers.

The two importers began marketing Yashili 1, Yashili 2 and Sweet Baby 2 brands before getting registration from the Institute of Public Health and Nutrition (IPHN).

The IPHN has already halted processing the registration application for Yashili brands and issued a letter on the marketer to withdraw their products from the market.

The inter-ministerial meeting decided to keep people from purchasing, selling and stocking of San Lu, Sun Care and Yashili brands for the time being.

Officials from the Customs, BSTI, Atomic Energy Commission, health directorate, health and commerce ministries attended the meeting, presided over by Commerce Secretary Feroz Ahmed.