The High Court (HQ yesterday ordered the health ministry to send again samples of the already tested eight brands of powdered milk to three of the local laboratories that had earlier tested those for melamine contamination, and to submit the new results to the court within 21 days.

The designated laboratories are of the chemistry department of Dhaka University (DU), Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), and

Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI).

The court also ordered the government to publish in newspapers the results of all the tests done so far in order to let the public have access to those.

It. however, lifted for 21 days the earlier ban imposed by itself on sale and display of the five popular brands among the eight — Dano, Red Cow, Diploma, Nido and Anlene --- while ordering to continue the ban on the three Chinese brands Yashili 1, Yashili 2, and Sweet Baby 2.

The HC in addition directed the

government to test all brands of powdered milk available on the market in the three designated laboratories by collecting samples of those, and to submit the test reports to the court as soon as possible'.

The test results must be submitted through the registrar of Supreme Court (SQ, the order said.

An HC bench comprising Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Quamrul Islam Siddiqui ordered the government to collect the samples from the market in presence of the representatives of

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