Health Minister asks Food Safety and Standards Authority of India to conduct tests on market samples
Concerned about the quality of bottled water being
supplied to the general public, the Union Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare has asked the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India to
collect water samples from across the country and test “whether the
bottled water available to the common man in the market is fit for human
consumption”.
According to a senior official in the
Ministry, the Ministry received several complaints from various sources
pointing to the compromised water quality and purification methods.
On
Friday, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad
noted that bottled water being supplied to the general public needed to
be tested to ensure that allegations about contamination and companies
not maintaining adequate quality checks were being looked into on a
priority basis.
“The Ministry has received many
complaints about companies using contaminated ground water and not
cleaning the water adequately, and worse, using chemicals which are
harmful for human consumption,” said a senior official at the Ministry.
The
official said the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India had been
asked to look into the purification process and ensure that chemicals
used were within the permissible limits and not harmful to human beings:
“The Authority is required to submit its report within a month.”
Ensure chemicals used are within permissible limits, safe, FSSAI told
There have been allegations of contamination, inadequate quality checks
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