ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority have declarednine leading water brands as substandard.
Pakistan’s nine leading brands of bottled water are contaminated withchemical and microbiological contamination, according to a report ofPakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA), issued onWednesday.
The water brands were identified as Pure Water, Plus Piyaas, 3 Star, Douro,Real Plus, Pure It, Elayn Plus, Crystal Maya and Aqua Saad.
All nine companies failed to meet the water purity standards set by theStandard Quality Control Authority, according to the PSQSA’s July toSeptember report 2018. The samples from these companies were found to becontaminated with chemical or other microbiological impurities.
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The researchers have made this comparison of analytical findings within itspermissible limits. According to the report, 118 samples of mineral/bottledwater brands have been collected from Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala,Peshawar, Multan, Lahore, Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan, Tandojam, Quetta andKarachi.
