On May 19, the Food Safety and Hygiene Department of Quang Binh province announced that it had decided to fine Bang Mineral Water Joint Stock Company (Kien Giang town, Le Thuy district) related to the incident of discovering a leech in a water bottle with an intact label at Phong Thuy Kindergarten.
Interdisciplinary inspection team inspects water wells of Bang Mineral Water Joint Stock Company
The agency also announced the results of water sample tests after the Quang Binh Provincial Center for Disease Control (CDC) conducted tests and the results were basically satisfactory.
Specifically, the Food Safety Department of Quang Binh province received the results of 5 water samples taken by the interdisciplinary inspection team on May 10.
These water samples include: 1 sample of Bang brand bottled water with a capacity of 20 liters (with leeches in the batch, produced on April 25); 1 water sample before being poured; 3 water samples from 3 wells at Bang Mineral Water Joint Stock Company.
As a result, the above water samples have indicators that meet the requirements for bottled drinking water quality according to the Ministry of Health's standards and the hygiene standards for underground water quality of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
Particularly, water sample 203/KQXNN (water from well No. 3) does not meet underground water quality standards because the microbiological indicators do not meet standards.
Bang Mineral Water Joint Stock Company
20 liter water bottle with intact label, inside there is a leech wriggling
The Food Safety Department of Quang Binh province issued a decision to impose administrative sanctions on Bang Mineral Water Joint Stock Company for the following acts: Failure to notify competent state agencies when discovering food safety incidents; erasing evidence of food safety incidents.
Mr. Le Minh Tien, Head of the Food Safety Department of Quang Binh province, said that this agency will continue to work with Bang Mineral Water Joint Stock Company on temporarily suspending the exploitation of water from well No. 3, carrying out remedial measures and sending samples for testing.
The Department will also inspect, evaluate the self-inspection, review and correction of the Bang Mineral Water Joint Stock Company's 20-liter bottled water production line after the incident of discovering leeches in water bottles with intact labels.
Previously, Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper continuously reported that when teachers at Phong Thuy Kindergarten, Le Thuy district, took out a 20-liter Bang brand water bottle for students to drink, they discovered a foreign object, a leech, wriggling in the water bottle with the label still intact.
After that, the school informed Bang Mineral Water Joint Stock Company to come and work and agreed to take back all the water. When taking back the water, Bang Mineral Water Joint Stock Company destroyed the evidence and claimed that the bad guys "put a leech in the water bottle" to lower the company's reputation.
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