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MNA National Desk: The High Court’s orders to take 52 food products off the shelves has left retailers in a quandary as the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority tasked with implementing the directives awaits a report from the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Instituion (BSTI). Based on a report by the BSTI, the court on Sunday ordered that 52 ‘substandard’ products of 18 companies be immediately withdrawn from shop shelves and destroyed. The Bangladesh Food Safety Authority and the Directorate of National Consumers’ Right Protection were given 10 days to execute the order. On Monday, the sales of the impugned products continued ...

MNA Business Desk: Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) will test samples of Baby Powder by Johnson and Johnson amid worries over the product allegedly containing cancer-causing asbestos. “We have taken this matter extremely seriously. We’ll start the process of collecting samples from shops when our offices resume on Sunday,” said BSTI director SM Ishaq Ali, reports news agency. However, Bangladesh will not ban Baby Powder sales before learning of the result of the sample tests, the BSTI director said. Whether asbestos in the talc supply in J&J Baby Powder caused cancer has been the subject of litigation for years.