Consumers asked not to buy fake saline

Consumers have been requested by icddr,b not to buy fake saline, which is reportedly being sold in the market in the name of icddr,b saline. Original packets of icddr,b branded rice based oral saline produced by the icddr,b Employees’ Multipurpose Cooperative Society are sold only through the Cooperative Society’s office at icddr,b’s diagnostic service centre and inside the Dhaka Hospital, according to an icddr,b press release. This saline is not intended for sale anywhere else. icddr,b cannot vouch for the authenticity of ORS packets not bought from these authorised outlets and strongly advises members of the public against purchasing them, according to UNB.