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Akij Food and Beverage Ltd and Pran Dairy Ltd have secured an order from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to resume production, distribution and sales of their milk products, Farm Fresh Milk and Pran Milk respectively.
Justice Md Nuruzzaman, Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division, passed the order on Tuesday after hearing an appeal, seeking a stay on the High Court order that directed the two companies to refrain from producing, marketing and selling milk for five weeks, reports UNB.
On July 28, the HC bench of Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed and Justice Md Iqbal Kabir ordered 14 pasteurised milk-producing companies, including Akij and Pran, to stop production, distribution and sales of their milk products for five weeks.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a High Court order for eight weeks that asked 14 pasteurised milk-producing companies to refrain from producing, marketing and selling milk for five weeks, clearing the way for Pran Milk and Farm Fresh to produce and sell milk.
As per the Tuesday's order, the two companies, out of the 14 companies, got clearance to resume production, distribution and sales of their products.
During the hearing on Tuesday Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, Deputy Attorney General Md Murad Reza stood for the companies.
On July 14, the High Court sought the test reports of pasteurised milk of all the companies within a week after testing the samples of those in four different laboratories -- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), BCSIR, Institute of Public Health, Food Safety Laboratory under the Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute.
A new test conducted by Prof ABM Faruque, former director of Dhaka University's Biomedical Research Centre, found the traces of antibiotics in pasteurised products of Pran, MilK Vita, Igloo, Aarong and Farm Fresh.
On June 25, scientists said they found the traces of detergent and antibiotics in samples of raw and pasteurised milk of Pran, Milk Vita, Igloo, Aarong and Farm Fresh.