Melamine menace
People have been extremely worried and anxious for the last couple of weeks regarding the melamine contamination of eight brands of imported powdered milk in Bangladesh. In spite of the detection of the presence of melamine in Dano, Nido, Diploma, Red Cow, Sweet Baby by a competent authority, Dhaka University, the government was dillydallying in giving any clear directive as to the ban on these products. Even if they were not sure about the purity or contamination of these foreign products, they should have ordered temporary withdrawal of them from the market considering public health.
Now that the prudent lawyers of the Human Rights and Peace of Bangladesh have come forward to save the awed nation by a writ petition to the High Court to ban these reportedly melamine-contaminated imported milk, I heartily thank them for their timely action.
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