Some water dispensers fail safety standards


GUANG MING Daily reported that some of the “water dispensing machines” selling drinking water in the market failed to meet food safety requirements.

A Health Department Officer who declined to be named told the Chinese daily that the department found that some of the machines, which sell water at 10 sen or 20 sen per litre, did not even have a water filter system.

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