Ministry Of Health has temporarily banned the production,distribution and sale of the "Orange" based Soft Drink which caused a death of a 11 year old girl in Polonnaruwa District of the North Central Province after drinking it .The Child died while admitting to the Polonnaruwa General Hospital yesterday and her mother who also drank the soft drink was admitted to the Hospital in serious condition.
The Father of the girl who is an army officer bought the Soft Drink Bottle from a shop at Vavuniya in the Northern Sri Lanka while on his way to home at Polonnaruwa District it has been revealed.
After conducting an preliminary investigations the Food Control Unit of the Ministry of Health has stated that the Soft Drink Bottle drank by the deceased girl was an expired one and suspect that a content in the soft drink may have caused her death.In the view of the preliminary investigation results Health Ministry Secretary Dr.Ravindra Ruberu has ordered the Soft Drink Manufacturer to stop production,distribution and sale of the suspected soft drink till receiving the government analyst's report.The soft drink manufacturer today closed their manufacturing plant in Colombo after receiving the orders of the Ministry.
Meanwhile under the instructions of the Ministry of Health the chief public health inspector of the vavuniya district banned the sale of above soft drink within the district with immediate effect.Ministry of Health has also instructed all Public Health Inspectors island wide through a special circular to ban selling of the suspected orange based soft drink in local market and arrest the stock which are in production at manufacturing plant of the soft drink manufacturer.
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