You might want to be careful the next time you reach for a bottle of water in Myanmar.
Some 70 drinking water brands were granted brand licenses despite failing FDA-administered tests, after the government decided it was easier to lower test standards than for the brands to improve the quality of their water.
Myanmar's Food and Drug Administration's Microbial test measures the number of bacterial colonies that grow in water.
All water brands in Myanmar were previously required to contain less than 100 colonies per millilitre — the same standard used in places like the US and EU. Read more...
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