5 packaged drinking water bottling plants closed in Tripura over safety issues

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Authorities in Tripura have closed five packaged drinking water bottling plants over safety and licence issues. Joint teams comprising medical, drug control and food safety officials are conducting raids on the plants and ordering their immediate closure if rules and guidelines are breached.

“Our officials along with food safety and drug control staff launched a crackdown on the erring water bottling plants on Friday. We visited plants at various places and the raids will continue,” a health department official told The Hindu on Sunday evening.