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Bihar lifts ban on sale of live fish
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SME Times News Bureau | 18 Jan, 2019
The Bihar government on Thursday evening lifted ban on sale of live
fish, three days after it banned the sale, transportation and storage of
all kinds of fish -- dead or alive -- in Patna for 15 days, an official
said.
Sanjay Sinha, the Principal Secretary of state Health
Department, told the media here that the government has decided to lift
ban on sale of live fish, mostly local fish.
According to sources
in the Chief Minister's Office, the ban on live fish was lifted
following a directive from CM Nitish Kumar, who was upset after reports
of growing protests by fishermen and vendors selling fish despite a
blanket ban on all kinds of fish in Patna. Fish traders had also threatened to launch agitation against the ban.
Sinha
said that ban will continue on sale, storage and transportation of fish
from Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal in Patna, in view of the laboratory
tests that confirmed presence of high content of formalin and heavy
metals like lead and cadmium in the consignments.
Formalin, a cancer-inducing chemical, is used to preserve the fish.
After
presence of formalin in samples of fish from Andhra Pradesh and West
Bengal was found, the government agencies have decided to randomly
collect fish samples from different districts and get those
laboratory-tested. If the tests are found to be positive, the ban would
again be imposed across the state, he said.
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